Example sentences of "[verb] on at the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years .
2 The 95 workers will clock on at the Gloucester factory for the last time at the end of the month … after that the British Forces will be dressed in uniforms made in Morocco …
3 On his arrival in England in 1969 , he signed on at the Jim Russell school and raced in Formula Ford , passing from there to F3 , winning the championship , and moving on in 1970 to F2 for Lotus .
4 Why , for example , did Molla Iwad ( Molla Ivaz ) , who was eventually to rise to become Rumeli kazasker , stay on at the Sahn at one point in his career , twice refusing appointments to higher medreses ( those of Murad II in Bursa and of Bayezid II in Edirne ) before accepting an appointment to the Ayasofya medrese ?
5 In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’
6 Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia .
7 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
8 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
9 For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show .
10 He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader .
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