Example sentences of "[vb -s] on [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind .
2 Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all .
3 Yes , I think for a lot of people that 's true and I do n't denigrate that because I think a lot of good work goes on in the Women 's Institute , but what we are particularly interested in is in the professional craftsman , the craftsman who has trained for a number of year to produce extremely good work , and what we try to do is to make that work more available to the public in a number of ways .
4 Jakobson 's answer to this argument is , however , a powerful one : all users of a language must necessarily know the system of categories into which its different elements are divided , even if only unconsciously ; and his analysis of poetry does not claim to represent what goes on in the reader 's mind , but to account for the special effect which the poetry , for reasons of which he may well be unaware , exercises on him .
5 THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head .
6 In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment .
7 I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’
8 Orientalism lives on in the tourist 's gaze , says Nigel Whiteley
9 Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have devised a Parent 's Game which continues on from the Child 's Game described in the previous chapter .
10 It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf .
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