Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the fish stocked are extremely peaceful and were intended to get on well — as indeed they have . |
| 2 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 3 | In a miniature echo of Tsarist Russia , those of the Ascendancy who were dwindling , Goldsmith 's children , and Swift 's , were permitted to carry on fading ; those more vigorous were not made to feel welcome in the new Ireland of ‘ the Risen People ’ . |
| 4 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 5 | Other actors were instructed to bring on the score . |
| 6 | So I decided that it was time to pack up I decided that the nights were made to sleep on n n n and I was going to sleep on them you see ? |
| 7 | When a policeman raised his hand as a signal to approaching traffic to halt , there was no definite indication as to which vehicles were requested to move on when the officer waved his other arm . |
| 8 | And there was lots of the we came to an end and if we were going to carry on with this further we the everybody was getting a bit fed up with it . |
| 9 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 10 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 11 | ‘ I just got the impression you were going to go on arguing all night . ’ |
| 12 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 13 | We were working with the council at ten pence and hour so we thought we were going to improve on that a wee bit . |
| 14 | it 's Wednesday today all day I thought you were going to get on with your painting ? |
| 15 | All their time was spent on the ones that were going to stay on , so ones that were going to leave at the end of the fourth year were never there and nobody sort of worried about them . ’ |
| 16 | Having asked about Shropshire 's youth and their existence within the diocese , my friend Clare and I were invited to take on the role of Shropshire 's Youth Representatives . |
| 17 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 18 | The after-effects of a severe bout of glandular fever were beginning to linger on far too long for Virginia 's liking . |
| 19 | This was enough for Hennessy , who seemed to think that the policeman and the Captain were starting to get on too damn well for his liking . |
| 20 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 21 | We were set to move on . |
| 22 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 23 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 24 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 25 | ( Hu Yaobang and his family , for example , were allowed to carry on living in the privileged conditions of Zhongnanhai and Fang Lizhi was still allowed to travel abroad . ) |
| 26 | Over the summer , Anglo-Soviet negotiations were allowed to drag on until , in August , Stalin despaired of a Western alliance and signed the Nazi-Soviet pact . |
| 27 | At last a city official , wearing the blue and mustard livery of the Corporation , decided the burnt-out tenement had been sufficiently destroyed and we were allowed to pass on . |
| 28 | But inspired by the experience of Jim Duffy at the back and battling Stainrod himself up front , the pattern of play changed dramatically during the final half hour , to the extent that it was the visitors who were forced to hang on , especially after Stainrod had forced goalkeeper Theo Snelders into an own-goal during the latter stages . |
| 29 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 30 | Jewellery replied quickly and Amison and Plant were forced to take on extra defensive duties while at the other end , captain Tony Elkin , brother Kevin and Paul Moran were well in control for Barlaston . |