Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 2 | And I went over , and I like , I went , my skis stayed on , and I like somersaulted over and my skis stayed on and I pulled the whole of my leg , it was black from just above my knee to there and it 's like just black my whole leg . |
| 3 | And I went over , and I like , I went , my skis stayed on , and I like somersaulted over and my skis stayed on and I pulled the whole of my leg , it was black from just above my knee to there and it 's like just black my whole leg . |
| 4 | over the loss Of the one my sun shone on |
| 5 | For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish . |
| 6 | My friend went on ahead and told Mum what had happened and Dad , after leaving work , came out to meet me . |
| 7 | ‘ Your enemies were most disappointed with Reldresal 's plan , ’ my friend went on . |
| 8 | My friend went on down the winding road for about two miles , finishing at the quayside , where he rapped smartly on a door . |
| 9 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 10 | In the same fiat tone my father went on ; ‘ Well , I do n't suppose he 'll get this far . |
| 11 | ‘ Just like that other bitch , with her oh , so glorious hair that my father doted on — to my disadvantage ! |
| 12 | And so my life went on . |
| 13 | Mrs Stringer ? ’ and the light above my bed snapped on . |
| 14 | I recall thanking him for his consideration , but quite probably I said nothing very definite for my employer went on : |
| 15 | As our house belonged to the farm my dad worked on , my mum , and myself moved in with my mum 's mum and dad . |
| 16 | My clothes hung on me as though they had been draped on a piece of wood . |
| 17 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 18 | As my pregnancy went on , I wondered whether the baby was a girl and If I should soon be in a mother/daughter relationship with my own child . |
| 19 | My partner carried on working like mad . |
| 20 | But my mother went on counting until we heard a low shout coming from the hill outside . |
| 21 | My non-uniform clothes , which were worn in the evenings and at weekends , were also secondhand , bought in a secrecy which my mother insisted on , from a shop in Notting Hill . |
| 22 | Tears came to my eyes and to Bruno 's , but my mother put on a brave face . |
| 23 | Her jaw took on a mutinous slant . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's never brought any woman home before , ’ Travis replied promptly , and to her horror tacked on warmly , ‘ I could n't be more pleased that it 's you , Leith . ’ |
| 25 | Their presence lingered on ; or at least Mahon 's did . |
| 26 | Although she did n't quite know exactly what that entailed , he looked so depressed she murmured words of sympathy while her heart went on singing inside . |
| 27 | She stopped breathing but her heart kept on thudding its own wild race . |
| 28 | So her mum came on , and I said , ‘ Mrs Fry , I 'm sorry to bother you , but … ’ and she said , ‘ Bother ? |
| 29 | Almost senseless with terror , she was n't even aware that her screams went on and on . |
| 30 | Its light flickered on and off for a moment , as if it was making itself comfortable in a mechanical kind of way . |