Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Living history approaches , allowing children to dress up and experience activities carried on in the past can be extremely successful in the primary school . |
| 2 | Wet weather golfers soldier on in the rain |
| 3 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 4 | ‘ He always carried a spare pair of socks and a pair of more comfortable slippers to put on in the office . ’ |
| 5 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 6 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 7 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 8 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 9 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 10 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a particular shame for Neil because there were far worse things going on in the game but some people only want to see the dark side of him . |
| 12 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 13 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 14 | Now in what what other things go on in the flats that you get involved with ? |
| 15 | Er what other things go on in the flats ? |
| 16 | So d what sort of things go on in the flats ? |
| 17 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 18 | Class hours are supplemented with 10 hours of visits or activities per two weeks accompanied by a teacher , which are relevant to the projects/topics worked on in the classroom . |
| 19 | Even at less exalted levels of intellects , men 's thoughts and personalities live on in the minds of other men . |
| 20 | Since there were 15 strategies , there were 15 x 15 , or 225 separate games going on in the computer . |
| 21 | Details of activities and entertainments going on in the town can be obtained from the entertainments page in the local press . |
| 22 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 23 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 24 | These fugitives that are Negroes go by the name of Maroon , whilst the renegades to the King 's laws are called by the common sailors red legs ( that being the colour our white skins take on in the heat of the sun in these regions ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The Americans come on in the afternoon . ’ |
| 26 | Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation . |
| 27 | ‘ Also I ca n't see cafes catching on in the North , we have n't got the weather to sit outside . ’ |
| 28 | Spending on current health needs is often constrained by the serving of financial commitments taken on in the past to secure basic health resources . |
| 29 | Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council . |
| 30 | Most complaints come on in the evening or night and subside by midnight usually . |