Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 2 | ( They get up — To GUIL ) I come on in a minute . |
| 3 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 4 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 5 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 6 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 7 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 8 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 9 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |
| 10 | We carried on in a more sober mood , each repeating his own prayers . |
| 11 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 12 | For a time they trudged on in a silence punctuated by occasional reminiscences of the film . |
| 13 | ‘ They come on in a kind of rush , then you like , glow all over . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner . |
| 18 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 19 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 21 | The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period . |
| 22 | Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind . |
| 23 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 24 | Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all . |
| 25 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 26 | ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting . |
| 27 | He could no more understand what went on in a twenty-year-old 's head than fly to the moon . |
| 28 | One of the problems was in measuring what went on in a plasma . |
| 29 | This was not wildly different , I suppose , to what went on in a book I was reading , Edmund Gosse 's Father and Son , in which the father would pray before any crucial decision and await God 's direction . |
| 30 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |