Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 4 | I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | LITTLE ROUSILLON : Always prominent , kept on at same pace final furlong 3l 5th to Lochsong ( Newbury 7f , Gd ) . |
| 8 | He went on at great length on this subject , banging his pastoral staff on the floor and haranguing the assembly until the pope cried ‘ Enough ’ , and the reading of the decrees was resumed . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's simple really , ’ Jennifer went on at last . |
| 10 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 11 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |
| 12 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 13 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 14 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |
| 15 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |