Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either .
2 I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car .
3 For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness .
4 ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’
5 However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study .
6 The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east .
7 Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector .
8 ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids .
9 It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world .
10 The MPs hope that talks now going on in the City between consultants and finance houses might help to raise cash — but at least one MP , Labour 's energy guru , Arthur Palmer , is not optimistic .
11 This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind .
12 Mr. Speaker : It is well known that when the Benches are empty there is much else going on in the House .
13 The mismatch between a head 's espoused values and what was actually going on in the classroom could be startling — and indeed is a recurrent theme in several of our interim reports , notably 10 and 11 .
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