Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hard square of orange light sprang on in the darkness . |
| 2 | The light went on in the hall and the door opened . |
| 3 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 4 | It seemed like only moments after Shiona had fallen asleep that the light snapped on in the compartment and a strong hand was dragging her from her bunk . |
| 5 | Similarly , by taking the coefficient estimated on in the equation , and the coefficients estimated on and in the output equation , which are estimates of and we can deduce other estimates of and . |
| 6 | Well you 've got that one that Daddy put on in the wash and washed too hot . |
| 7 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 8 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 9 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 10 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 11 | Smythson stayed on in the service of the Willoughby family , and was employed by them on administrative and financial business , as well as as a surveyor . |
| 12 | A vigorous , and at times vitriolic , debate rumbled on in the pages of Nature and elsewhere , culminating in 1926 with an accusation by the American biologist Gladwyn Noble of outright fraud . |
| 13 | Class hours are supplemented with 10 hours of visits or activities per two weeks accompanied by a teacher , which are relevant to the projects/topics worked on in the classroom . |
| 14 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 15 | THE Lawson affair rumbled on in the Commons yesterday with the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , asking the Prime Minister why she did not ‘ tell the truth ’ when she was asked why the former Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned by television interviewer Brian Walden . |
| 16 | , ’ Eric rambled on in the earpiece , apparently oblivious to what I 'd just said . |
| 17 | Written over twenty years ago , it is admittedly a tentative sketch put on in the hope that some English historians and archaeologists would set to work in a more expert way and on a bigger scale . |
| 18 | McCandless stayed on in the U.S.A. as a teacher of the deaf ( deaf teachers not being permitted in Britain ) at the Mississippi School for the Deaf . |
| 19 | After his retirement in 1944 Normand stayed on in the department as officer on special duty for maintaining liaison with military organizations . |