Example sentences of "[vb past] on at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 2 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 3 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 4 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 5 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 6 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 7 | The unending toil , which ground on at the pace of the changing seasons and the constant struggle against relentless Nature would be in vain , as far as Jonadab Oaks was concerned , unless there were others of his name to follow in his footsteps and work this land to which he had devoted his life . |
| 8 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 9 | The foundry 's most famous loco was the Derwent of 1845 , which worked on the S&DR until the 1860s and soldiered on at a colliery until 1891 . |
| 10 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
| 11 | She caught the reins or bridle in her hands , and there hung suspended for a second as Anmer rushed on at a speed of over thirty miles an hour . |
| 12 | On his arrival in England in 1969 , he signed on at the Jim Russell school and raced in Formula Ford , passing from there to F3 , winning the championship , and moving on in 1970 to F2 for Lotus . |
| 13 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 14 | It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above , with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist . |
| 15 | I kept on at the council , but it was n't easy to get a council flat in those days . |
| 16 | From then onwards the transformation of the English landscape , or of a considerable part of it , went on at a revolutionary pace . |
| 17 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 18 | I would usually be at the foot of the platform stairs as Billy went on at the start . |
| 19 | It was precisely that peculiar combination of laisser-faire rule over the kingdom at large , but absolute personal involvement with all that went on at the centre , in institutional as well as individual and personal affairs , which is the notable quality of kingship in Scotland and explains the high level of prestige and control which the crown enjoyed . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't care what went on at the party unless it was blatantly against the law . |
| 21 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 22 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 23 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 24 | Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp . |
| 25 | The animal took no notice and clopped on at a steady plodding pace through the narrow turning . |
| 26 | Gascoigne took it , John Barnes flicked on at the near post and Platt arrived behind him to head in his 13th England goal . |
| 27 | Neat salt , put on at a light rate of spread is just enough to de-ice the road surface . |
| 28 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 29 | As her friends left the city one by one , she carried on at the Hotel Normandie in spite of the declining trade . |
| 30 | He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’ |