Example sentences of "[vb past] on in the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 2 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 3 | And he walked on in the winter sunshine , the tom-cat smell of the tramp in his nostrils , the wind swelling his clothes , bowling him down the hill towards the station . |
| 4 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 5 | These examples give only a hint of the technical finagling that went on in the research centres . |
| 6 | The problem is that UK households , like US ones , are struggling to repay the debts they took on in the boom years of the 1980s , he explained . |