Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 3 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 4 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 5 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 6 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 7 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 8 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 9 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 10 | Yet in Scotland the majority of the ‘ salariat ’ ( 58 per cent ) clung on to such views . |
| 11 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 12 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 13 | But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA . |
| 14 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 15 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 16 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 17 | Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit . |
| 18 | As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies . |
| 19 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 20 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 21 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 22 | The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context . |
| 23 | The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure . |
| 24 | Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation . |
| 25 | Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General . |
| 28 | Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’ |
| 30 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |