Example sentences of "[vb past] on in the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drank three pints of water and then eased the wheelbarrow backwards onto firm ground and trundled on in the certainty of my safety . |
| 2 | Harry , for his part , exchanged a knowing smile with Papaioannou , then went on in the direction of the village . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
| 4 | Still , it would be hard to deny that in , say , 1875 what went on in the university of Kazan and Kiev was more significant than what went on in Yale and Princeton . |
| 5 | True Confessions in 1981 was an attempt at getting my stage nerve back after a disastrous premature version of Blood and Ice , my first try at a real play , went on in the studio of the Belgrade Theatre , Coventry ( ‘ I 'd rather be at the dentist — Birmingham Evening News ’ ) . |
| 6 | He received his education at Donaldson 's School for the Deaf in Edinburgh and stayed on in the capacity of pupil-teacher as the only deaf member of staff . |
| 7 | Smythson stayed on in the service of the Willoughby family , and was employed by them on administrative and financial business , as well as as a surveyor . |