Example sentences of "[vb pp] on at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David was always getting picked on at school ! |
| 2 | If you generally only go out as a treat , a commitment to healthy eating will mean that you want to choose dishes that build on the good work you have carried on at home . |
| 3 | Whereupon Stoker , gifted with Dublin 's malice , wrote instead a novel — about a bloodsucking , ennobled gentleman whose business was carried on at night , in or around grand dramatic buildings . |
| 4 | Moved on at dawn to Athens or Antibes or somewhere or other . |
| 5 | This may be so but er with all the skirmishes we 've got on at present and there 's active there 'll be ex-servicemen from them and they 've these funny enough these young ones are coming along and joining the British Legion |
| 6 | Similarly with Abdullah Muhammad : he had married Salha 's granddaughter ; another sister had married Salha 's grandson ; and yet another sister was mother of another of the girls who had stayed on at school . |
| 7 | The ‘ unsafe ’ driver is more likely than the ‘ safe ’ driver to be a non-manual worker and to have stayed on at school after the age of 16 . |
| 8 | A friend of many years ' standing has said that , ‘ Ifor would have loved to have stayed on at school . |
| 9 | Sandy was a few months younger than Wayne , but unlike Wayne she 'd stayed on at school . |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I 'd stayed on at college . |
| 11 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 12 | They supply a constant load , therefore , so the user , the electricity user , has to be persuaded to even out his use of electricity , so night storage heaters are sold to people , just to be switched on at night , in order to provide a smoothing of the demand load . |
| 13 | A little later , shows were put on at village fairs and halls by travelling showmen . |
| 14 | Some of the ‘ Heavy rescue ’ men would come and continue shoring up the main walls , a roof would be put on at ground level . |
| 15 | An agreement had hastily been arrived at , to the effect that Cornelius would be kept on at school for an indefinite period until matters could be expedited . |
| 16 | The last lick of paint was slapped on at midnight on Friday and the final blob of tarmac laid five hours before kick-off . |