Example sentences of "[verb] on at a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 2 | ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm . |
| 3 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 4 | The foundry 's most famous loco was the Derwent of 1845 , which worked on the S&DR until the 1860s and soldiered on at a colliery until 1891 . |
| 5 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't half keep on at a girl , ’ said Dolly . |
| 7 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 8 | She caught the reins or bridle in her hands , and there hung suspended for a second as Anmer rushed on at a speed of over thirty miles an hour . |
| 9 | Some of these ‘ emotional bindings ’ go on at a level below the surface of normal awareness . |
| 10 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 11 | He had had enough of carrying on at a snail 's pace . |
| 12 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |
| 13 | Although twilight had not yet come , the lights of the fair were switched on at a quarter past six , and the first strains of music from the roundabout spread the news that Mrs Curdle 's annual fair was now open . |
| 14 | The problem for Galileo was that , once suspicions were aroused , the machinery of censorship could be switched on at a moment 's notice . |
| 15 | Instead he stayed on at a factory . |
| 16 | The expressive exuberance of marks is noted along with the predominance of red , with the paint ‘ … rasped on at a stroke or teased into fuzzy blotches ’ . |