Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ But the balance sheets that you gave Craig and the fact that the thefts went on while he was in prison , did n't all that prove it was his brother 's fault ? ’ |
| 3 | Darren 's gulps were immediately checked although the tears flowed on . |
| 4 | I would get a lot of satisfaction if the players went on to do well . ’ |
| 5 | These are extreme cases , but competition for business clients between travel companies is keen and the services laid on for business travellers are considerable and proclaimed through high pressure marketing . |
| 6 | Yet there was a sealed-in-cosiness when darkness fell early and the lights came on . |
| 7 | As he entered it , one of the prisoners found the switches , and the lights came on again . |
| 8 | Undeterred , Betty rushed out la-la-ing the tune and the girls carried on as though nothing had happened until they were reconnected and finished the performance beautifully in true MEDAU spirit . |
| 9 | ( They were not amused ; he was ordered to leave the premises at once , and the guardians went on to celebrate one or other event in their own way by providing extra diet for the inmates . |
| 10 | Having ordered a seafood salad , she sipped a glass of dry white wine and listened to the orchestra playing Neapolitan love-songs while the sun set and the lanterns came on , glowing a weird purple in the warm blue dusk . |
| 11 | Miles signalled , and the hunters drove on . |
| 12 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 13 | A parody of this , a pseudo-democracy , is a situation in which the decision-makers put on a show of consulting those whom their decisions affect when in fact the crucial decisions have already been taken and the policies decided on . |
| 14 | Fund accounting explicitly recognizes the political , economic and legal differences that exist between the services provided , and the activities carried on , within public sector organizations . |
| 15 | The last time in Norwich about six years ago , and then there were five Magistrates out , and the sittings went on , for between two and three days . |
| 16 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 17 | The girls , spurred on by their victory went on to win their next league match and the boys went on to play for England football and cricket teams . |
| 18 | In the Three Towns , as elsewhere , the men died and the women lived on and on . |
| 19 | The life of the river and the riverbanks went on about us . |
| 20 | The word Olympic was never used , and the contests dragged on throughout the summer and autumn . |
| 21 | Nutty stopped , and the others went on . |
| 22 | The GB and Ireland team went wild , rushing across the green to swamp their Scottish saviour and the celebrations went on long into the night , and the morning too . |
| 23 | And the celebrations went on long into the night … they could n't have done any better Down Under . |
| 24 | The patrol marched on and the raiders slipped on to the airfield where they managed to place bombs on the twenty-one aircraft , some vehicles and a fuel dump . |
| 25 | Both it and the Tories took on a joint gamble when the Sun talked up the ‘ independence in Europe ’ line . |
| 26 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 27 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 28 | Similarly , by taking the coefficient estimated on in the equation , and the coefficients estimated on and in the output equation , which are estimates of and we can deduce other estimates of and . |
| 29 | The hallway was repeated on the first floor , with the entrance to the next flat , and the stairs went on , to stop at a narrow landing , with another door opening from it . |
| 30 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |