Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.

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1 Precisely how the Minoan merchants carried on their trade is uncertain .
2 But it must never be forgotten that the political , economic , cultural transformation of the world by European influences went on right down to 1945 and beyond .
3 Herbs distributed about the garden mixed in with the general plantings will often supply that " surprise " quality that the old garden-landscape designers insisted on , as an aroma wafts through the air on a hot sunny day , or when a plant is brushed accidentally so that a spicy smell comes apparently out of nowhere .
4 Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power .
5 It is made from presses steel , which is then epoxy coated for a durable finish , and has rubber treads bonded on for step security .
6 In America , where there was a comparative absence of a long term aristocracy , these social hierarchies took on a particularly strong pecuniary emphasis .
7 Very few husbands took on any household chores .
8 The native troops were shattered by this , but many Dutchmen and some natives fought on , others joined the increasing numbers of hostile bands roaming the country .
9 A few lights came on in the villages .
10 If you do not buy one of these make sure that you always leave some lights switched on inside the house — even if you are going out at eight o'clock in the morning and will not be back until midnight .
11 Some writers went on to argue that attracting high ability youngsters into manufacturing industry was one of the conditions for a regeneration of the British economy .
12 This is of the form A-BC ( which would be meaningless at levels of more general affinity , and is excluded by the homogeneity of style at the unitary level ) , where some of the mosaicists responsible for mosaic A worked on B , and some of the mosaicists responsible for B worked on 6 , but where few mosaicists worked on both A and C. At each step in such a " distributed relationship " some craftsmen are " lost " .
13 On March 7th , against Wales at Twickenham , we all witnessed at least two acts of complete thuggery when not only were English players stamped on but it was their heads which came in for rough treatment .
14 For this you have a young girl covered in old newspapers held on with scotch tape or cotton .
15 Gray died tragically early from smallpox when he had published a second edition ; but willing hands carried on the work , and the 35th edition was published by Longman in 1973 .
16 Scottish graduates went on to the major foreign universities , notably to Paris , and to Cologne , Louvain , Bologna and Montpellier .
17 On one level the social niceties ground on , the minutiae of dress and behaviour observed and chattered over .
18 One of the more unprofessional results of the plague was that some priests latched on to the idea of leaving the parochial ministry and becoming chantry priests — often , in the process , gaining a lucrative return for very little work .
19 So English women went on being under-educated with nothing to counteract the filth and lies and daily racism of the English media .
20 Chaos had been averted , though strikes in the public services sputtered on .
21 The Club 's day-to-day affairs and social events carried on side by side .
22 It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall
23 Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls .
24 He prefaced each pronouncement with an apologetic twitch of the head to the left , but lesser mortals hung on every word — and he knew it .
25 Different cells took on different functions .
26 It has a quiet rural grace about it and , particularly in this area where gabled houses went on being built well into the eighteenth century , it displays a certain amount of daring .
27 Accordingly , the subject that studied such phenomena took on a strongly normative , prescriptive character .
28 To the west he could see the outline of houses , probably a council estate , a trim row of identical roofs and square slabs of darkness broken by patterned squares of yellow as the early risers switched on their lights .
29 The remaining Dragoons swept on .
30 Delighted shoppers looked on as the dancers weaved their way past Darlington Dolphin Centre .
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