Example sentences of "[noun pl] go on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Sunday the world-wide Fun for Nature 's Walk for the Rain Forest is taking place , and that there are three hundred walks going on throughout the country , four of them are in Oxfordshire , and Sue May is , is concentrating on the walks at Burford Wildlife Park and also the one at Banbury . |
| 2 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 3 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 4 | Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine . |
| 5 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 6 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Celebrations went on into the morning and Paul and Fiona , along with many of their friends , stayed on in Jersey for a week 's holiday , before flying to Greece for their honeymoon . |
| 9 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 10 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 11 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 16 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 17 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 18 | Yes I think er people should hear that er er er the royal family 's had a lot of correction in the past with the outside world and er come and go and you know , people know the royal family very well and they attract a lot of business , a lot of things go on behind the scenes whether it 's from glamour point of view . |
| 19 | This is blue-sky country where they play their music in that western way , the women are sultry , the men drawl from beneath crew-cuts — and shocking things go on behind the blinds and the white picket fences . |
| 20 | Now in what what other things go on in the flats that you get involved with ? |
| 21 | Er what other things go on in the flats ? |
| 22 | So d what sort of things go on in the flats ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I watched the other passengers go on towards the passport control and the futility of my own expedition was now only too clear . |
| 25 | Few of us were aware of the feverish political and diplomatic manoeuvres going on behind the scenes in Britain and Australia . |
| 26 | Since there were 15 strategies , there were 15 x 15 , or 225 separate games going on in the computer . |
| 27 | Details of activities and entertainments going on in the town can be obtained from the entertainments page in the local press . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I have no quarrel with Searle 's claim that ‘ mental phenomena are caused by processes going on in the brain ’ . |
| 30 | But it did n't necessarily follow that the sort of training beloved of the psychologists — say shaping a rat to press a lever for food in a skinner box — was best suited to the study of the cellular and biochemical processes going on within the organism . |