Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 2 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 3 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 4 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 5 | A soldier 's wife who stayed on in married quarters after her husband walked out has been asked to pay eight hundred pounds for trespass , the term used by the army when it considers a tenancy has become unlawful . |
| 6 | Even in a school where plenty of interdisciplinary discussion took place , this was often a revelation ; " new methods " were no longer something one heard of elsewhere , but something going on in familiar surroundings . |
| 7 | We drive on in subdued silence . |
| 8 | They sat on in friendly silence until the laughter began , whereat Lydia 's glass shook beneath her hand . |
| 9 | He motioned Ho to keep still and they sat on in cramped discomfort . |
| 10 | 27 It hangs on in frosty weather ( 6 ) |
| 11 | This field , again , is important , since without it , as we shall see , great harm to living creatures could occur as a result of what goes on in outer space . |
| 12 | Mexico apart ( and for domestic reasons no American government can ignore Mexico ) , the administration is not much bothered with what goes on in Latin America . |
| 13 | When I think of what went on in eastern Europe , and in fascist Europe before the war , when I was younger , I am glad that we have a free press . |