on again
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Daisy saw that she had me paralyzed with fear and she started carrying on again.
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At halfway, Brook kicked on again, crashing leg-spinner Shadab Khan for a perfect straight six.
From BBC
If I’d known that, I would have made just one big raft after all, because Selkie sometimes slipped down the middle and I had to hold the rafts together for her to get on again.
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A stellar season in Minnesota came after he replaced injured rookie JJ McCarthy, but then more irony in the Vikings opting to stick with the quarterback they drafted saw Darnold move on again.
From BBC
"We tried to go forward on a number of occasions, but then the response from India was on again, off again," he told me.
From BBC
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