Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If nothi if you , you do n't have an external force acting on something it just to remain stationary or , or carry on in a straight line and fixed speed , if . |
| 2 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 3 | erm There 's probably two-thirds of the logging that goes on in the tropical forest , which is about 5 million hectares a year erm is of that nature , so that the forest is left to recover after the logging has gone through . |
| 4 | Many teachers and heads felt that getting on in the primary sector required verbal and practical allegiance to certain quite specific canons of ‘ good primary practice ’ , and that anything less , let alone any open challenging of the orthodoxies in question , could damage their professional prospects . |
| 5 | Working on Jane Austen was not all that different from working on trade cycles , or lowtemperature physics ; these were the kind of things that went on in the modern university . |
| 6 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 7 | There are two groups of tropical diseases of importance ; those that are sexually transmitted — chancroid , granuloma inguinale , and lymphogranuloma venereum , and those that , although passed on in a non-sexual fashion , are closely related to syphilis and may be confused with it . |
| 8 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 9 | After a few moments , Sir Henry appeared out of the fog and walked on in the clear moonlight . |
| 10 | There 's a school of thought that Hanley should be given a spot on the bench and brought on in a game-breaking role . |
| 11 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 12 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |
| 13 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 14 | Again he dashed away and held on in a close finish with Atlee Mahorn , who was desperately trying to salvage some Canadian credibility out of the evening . |