Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 2 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 5 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 6 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 7 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 8 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 10 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 11 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 12 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 13 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 14 | Hold on to some part of your legs which you can reach without straining . |
| 15 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 16 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 17 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 18 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 19 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 20 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 21 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 22 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 23 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 24 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 25 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 26 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 27 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 28 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 29 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 30 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |