Example sentences of "[verb] on in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | What we concentrate on in Britain , is earth observation . |
| 3 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 4 | The men worked hard and as you got on in life you just thought this was home , although you had n't the luxuries . |
| 5 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 6 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 7 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 8 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 9 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 10 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 11 | In practical terms this means The Fix can be placed in a horizontal crack with a large proportion of the stem sticking out and fallen on in the knowledge that the device has been specifically designed to give an increased safety margin . |
| 12 | A presence lived on in his absence . |
| 13 | The one whose house it was got taken away and the other one lived on in the house . |
| 14 | Of the widowed and single , by contrast , only two-thirds now lived on in their own homes , usually with their children or lodgers , or very rarely grandchildren , but 12 per cent on their own . |
| 15 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 16 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 17 | She lived on in them , in their memories , not in the ashes he knew he would soon be given . |
| 18 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 19 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 20 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 21 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 22 | As an immediate corollary we obtain a result you might have stumbled on in your researches into Problem 3 . |
| 23 | The lyric is not generically debarred from standing out against the state , or from taking a generous interest in what goes on in the world . |
| 24 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 25 | What I have proposed in the foregoing pages is a conscious surrender to the culturalists of much of the activity that now goes on in English degrees , in order to retain something more coherent , defensible , and inherently valuable . |
| 26 | As Jeffrey Richards showed in the first of three talks on Sexuality in the Middle Ages ( Radio 3 , Monday ) , you can always get past a lack of obvious data to find out the sort of thing that goes on in bedrooms . |
| 27 | According to Alistair Kelman , however , many companies do not even comply with the Companies Act by keeping detailed records of what goes on in their computer systems . |
| 28 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 29 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
| 30 | Theatres and concert halls can be beautiful and stirring places , quite apart from what goes on in them . |