Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually she found that apart from keeping up with friends , the answer was not to hang on to the old life but to start new involvements of her own , by finding first part-time paid work and later a voluntary job doing book-keeping and accounting . |
| 2 | This was not passed on to the planning committee . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough prop Phil Wright was yesterday called on to the Yorkshire bench , where he will join his former clubmate Jim Chapman . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | She dumped the bouquets she was still carrying on to the passenger-seat . |
| 6 | The Athenians did not , however , lose sight of the Persian War which , in accordance with the propaganda of 478 , was still going on throughout the 470s . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Expansion was further spurred on by the reduction in the meat allowance in school canteens that the Ministry of Food was forced to introduce in 1941 , owing to problems of supply . |
| 9 | He said some kind of game was probably going on between the children and Timothy Gedge . |
| 10 | Gas was also laid on to the clubhouse replacing paraffin oil for lighting . |
| 11 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 12 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 13 | The remainder was immediately sent on to the appropriate numbered Swiss account . ’ |
| 14 | It was n't turned on by the T V. |
| 15 | " Oh do n't get the wrong idea — I was n't driven on to the streets through grief , or nothing like that . |
| 16 | A new Frankenstein monster was about to lurch on to the front pages of the tabloids — the proto-fascist skinhead , scourge of the immigrant and the helpless OAP . |
| 17 | Because despite the mysteries and attempted murder , it was then getting on towards the mid-point of that Vadinamian bio-day . |
| 18 | The normal formula is ‘ it seemed good to the Council and People ’ , indicating that the decree had been prepared for the Assembly ( ‘ the people ’ ) by the Council , and was then voted on by the Assembly . |
| 19 | As a mere formality , Minton , like others , was then reappointed on to the staff . |
| 20 | Wh what , what was actually going on at the tenants ' group then ? |
| 21 | 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 . |