Example sentences of "[verb] on at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 2 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 3 | Since many people are unable to meet the costs of litigation from their own resources , the availability of representation under the legal aid scheme will often be the crucial factor in deciding whether the case goes on at all . |
| 4 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 5 | Oh he goes on at five , he leaves house at five Al , and he must be in at one |
| 6 | What goes on at these ‘ ends ’ is intelligible only to those involved . |
| 7 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 8 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 9 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 10 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 11 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 12 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 13 | There was nothing to go on at all . |
| 14 | There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’ |
| 15 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 16 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 17 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 18 | So if we 'd have carried on at that |
| 19 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 20 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 21 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 22 | But if he was to come on at three o'clock in the morning , the other man called away would n't be replaced . |
| 23 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 24 | She did n't catch on at first . |
| 25 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 26 | I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm . |
| 27 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |
| 28 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 29 | In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ . |
| 30 | I did n't turn it on there , it were n't turned on at all . |