Example sentences of "[verb] on at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 6 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 7 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 8 | Such an approach enables active work to go on at all times , including those when no change of placement is contemplated or during periods of waiting for a suitable placement to become available . |
| 9 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 10 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 11 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 12 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 13 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 14 | Also available from Bisque is the battery-powered , remote-control Bagno-Stat , which allows you to pre-set the towel radiator heater to come on at specific times and maintain required temperatures . |
| 15 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 16 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 17 | I do n't think anyone would argue though , that the true stars of the event came on at mid bill , at 6.30pm . |
| 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 | But they were n't totally happy — for it was confirmed that the interrogation of the prisoner — going on at that moment — would reveal where the stuff had gone . |
| 20 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 21 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 22 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |
| 23 | knows what is going on at all times within the department ; |
| 24 | Pooling of clients and vendors is envisaged : ‘ Both parties should know what 's going on at both ends ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 26 | Where this factor-augmenting technical progress is going on at constant exponential rates , the production function may be written ( 8–15 ) where K denotes the rate of capital augmentation and the rate of labour augmentation . |
| 27 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 28 | Tenants have sold on at higher prices , and outsiders have attempted to prove local residence . |
| 29 | With three blocks removed , it was just the right length for riding on at one end and off at the other . |
| 30 | While the numbers of young people had dropped as the overall population grew older , in County Durham , 50% of over 16s were staying on at sixth forms or colleges such as his . |