Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on in a " in BNC.

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1 Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way .
2 The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours .
3 England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills .
4 For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow .
5 ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way .
6 Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted .
7 These two types of meaning are distinguished by the terms semantic meaning ( the fixed context-free meaning ) and pragmatic meaning ( the meaning which the words take on in a particular context , between particular people ) .
8 Threatened with the loss of the field , it found a local landowner who was willing to give land just outside the village to build on in a ‘ land swap ’ and approached the council .
9 The hit comes on in a rush .
10 The beam carried on in a straight line , and hit the point where the bullseye ought to have been .
11 M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this .
12 Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack .
13 Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful .
14 In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school .
15 Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path .
16 Elba remains largely unspoilt and life goes on in a traditional vein
17 Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened .
18 President Arístides Pereira asked the outgoing government to stay on in a caretaker capacity until after the presidential elections due on Feb. 17 .
19 Somewhere that world carries on in a crowded theatre foyer , a cosmopolitan crowd , the women glittering with diamonds , unchanged by war , by revolution , by suffering .
20 Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller .
21 ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub .
22 But now it 's all divorce and even the married ones carry on in a very odd way .
23 Merrill dreamed on in a beautiful drowning .
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