Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And did you brothers stay on in the little cottage ? |
2 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
3 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
4 | of CCA comments , ‘ I do not think that this experiment is going to substitute and take the place of several experiments going on in the Third World . |
5 | The other programme was the field theory initiated by Faraday , according to which electrical phenomena can be explained in terms of actions going on in the medium surrounding electrified bodies and electric circuits , rather than in terms of the behaviour of a substance within them . |
6 | Lights went on in the darkened boardroom . |
7 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
8 | And much the same process of intensification at the edges goes on in The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ) , where another little boy is prevented by his possessive and emotionally repressed father from developing his relationship with a gardener . |
9 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
10 | I 'd watched Motown and the blues catch on in the Sixties and the roots of all that stuff was laid in the Forties , so the funk was always going to catch on and stay . |
11 | Researcher : Why is the percentage of Afro-Caribbean pupils staying on in the sixth form so low ? |
12 | Who knew what strange rites went on in the savage mountains beyond Tirana , what musical instruments they played , where mad King Zog had ruled . |
13 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |