Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 2 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 3 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 4 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
| 5 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 6 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 7 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 8 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 9 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 10 | It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above , with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist . |
| 11 | A lack of narrative drive leaves the reader with piecemeal vignettes , an impression confirmed by the poems tacked on at the end of the book . |
| 12 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 13 | Have you got a spare T'shirt to put on at the end if it gets cold ? |
| 14 | As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’ |
| 15 | Palace spokesmen continually insisted : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 17 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 18 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
| 19 | You asked if it would be possible for certain material witnesses to stay on at the Lodge for an extra night while you continue your investigations on the spot . |
| 20 | There 's a number-plate racket going on at the moment . |
| 21 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 22 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 23 | There 's a lot of brinkmanship going on at the moment , a lot of er , horse-trading I dare say , going on as well . |
| 24 | Alice sat on at the end of the table , in the quiet kitchen . |