Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 2 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 3 | Mr Thomas stressed that this is the area that WACC-Asia needs to concentrate on in the months to come . |
| 4 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
| 5 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 6 | Obviously there 's a lot of sterilizing going on in the meantime and all this . |
| 7 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 8 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 10 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 11 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 12 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 13 | Old Trung a toughened three-year contract coolie compelled to stay on in the plantation beyond the term because he had no money or clothes to leave , knotted the cord Dong had fetched around the neck of the cadaver with a deftness that betrayed his familiarity with the task . |
| 14 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 15 | They had to get back to their dormitories before anyone awoke , but turning round , Endill saw lights had started coming on in the school . |
| 16 | ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned . |
| 17 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 18 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 19 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 20 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |
| 21 | They each had totally different stories , totally different perceptions of what had gone on in the meetings . |
| 22 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 23 | Whatever the support or not for these values , the book fails to recognize the wider changes that have gone on in the family and in gender relations , changes which may be quite separate in origin from the question of poverty , although they add to the poverty of women and children . |
| 24 | The majority of the law lords seemed to regard the interests of the state as coterminous with the interests of the government of the day ; executive-minded comments to that effect have lingered on in the textbooks ever since , an unwanted legal legacy from this period of popular protest . |
| 25 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 26 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 27 | What 's gone on in the media these past six months does n't mean a thing . |
| 28 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |