Example sentences of "[verb] on in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 2 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 3 | ‘ Now let's go over it once more , ’ he went on in an encouraging voice . |
| 4 | She checked what she was saying and then went on in an altered tone . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 6 | However he went on in an important passage to say that if contractual restrictions appear to be unnecessary or to be reasonably capable of enforcement in an oppressive manner then they must be justified before they can be enforced . |
| 7 | ‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper . |
| 8 | There was little reason to stay on in an empty house , Belinda decided as she covered and refrigerated the kedgeree after her father had left . |
| 9 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |