Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been . |
| 2 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 3 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 4 | Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein |
| 5 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 6 | Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering . |