Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 2 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 3 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 4 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 5 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 6 | These two types of meaning are distinguished by the terms semantic meaning ( the fixed context-free meaning ) and pragmatic meaning ( the meaning which the words take on in a particular context , between particular people ) . |
| 7 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 8 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 10 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
| 11 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 12 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 13 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 14 | There was little reason to stay on in an empty house , Belinda decided as she covered and refrigerated the kedgeree after her father had left . |
| 15 | Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering . |
| 16 | Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller . |
| 17 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 18 | Merrill dreamed on in a beautiful drowning . |