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 | 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 . |
| 8 | For this you have a young girl covered in old newspapers held on with scotch tape or cotton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Scottish graduates went on to the major foreign universities , notably to Paris , and to Cologne , Louvain , Bologna and Montpellier . |
| 11 | On one level the social niceties ground on , the minutiae of dress and behaviour observed and chattered over . |
| 12 | So English women went on being under-educated with nothing to counteract the filth and lies and daily racism of the English media . |
| 13 | Chaos had been averted , though strikes in the public services sputtered on . |
| 14 | The Club 's day-to-day affairs and social events carried on side by side . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Different cells took on different functions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The remaining Dragoons swept on . |
| 21 | Delighted shoppers looked on as the dancers weaved their way past Darlington Dolphin Centre . |
| 22 | In borrowing from structural linguistics the early structuralists took on the task of analysing signs and systems of signification . |
| 23 | And they were expecting , of course , a well-run settlement , a sort of East Anglian kibbutz , where the members had appointed duties , where vegetarianism prevailed and brown rice had an almost holy significance and discussions on mystical or occult or philosophic subjects went on long into the night . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the remaining males carried on displaying wildly — Fitz and Rousseau remaining at a distance , and only Kendo daring to charge right over the scrum — all to no avail . |
| 25 | Further developments came when Intel introduced the 80286 processor , ( the 286 ) a 16 bit implementation of the 8086 that had some clever bits tagged on , particularly in memory handling — another point we 'll cover in depth a little later in the series . |
| 26 | A FURTHER tranche of fixed-rate mortgages came on to the market this week following last month 's cut in official base rates from 7 to 6 per cent . |
| 27 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 28 | However , it was found that many large companies took on very few young people ( 20 per cent of those employing above i , 000 recruited fewer than ten per year ( ibid. , p. 47 ) ) . |
| 29 | Abkhazian troops went on to take the villages of Gantiadi and Leselidze on Oct. 6 , thus establishing control over the whole of northern Abkhazia , from the capital Sukhumi to the border with Russia . |
| 30 | There was a lot of dancing to the radio and , later , to John 's guitar ; a lot of Christmas cards were repeatedly sent toppling ; a lot of seasonal goings-on went on under the veritable forest of mistletoe that hung from the centre light . |