Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 2 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 3 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 4 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 5 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 6 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
| 7 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 8 | The problem of social role One particular difficulty which is liable to beset participant observation studies was touched on in the previous paragraph ; it concerns the social role allocated to the fieldworker as a consequence of his or her age , sex , ethnicity or other socially significant attributes . |
| 9 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 10 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 11 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 12 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 13 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |
| 14 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |