Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , the younger children of yeomen and husbandmen moved on elsewhere and the labouring families were far more volatile than the stable core of farming families . |
| 2 | The payments of rents and services went on as before , only to new masters . |
| 3 | Modigliani read Ehrenburg sonnets by an Italian Jewish poet of the fourteenth century , Emmanuele Romano , ‘ mocking , bitter poems that were nevertheless full of the love of life ’ , Then he told Ehrenburg how in bygone days the Romans had celebrated the carnival by forcing the Jewish community to elect a Jewish runner who had to run naked three times round the city , whilst the elegant crowd of bishops , ambassadors and ladies looked on . |
| 4 | Dials and switches flashed on and off . |
| 5 | The Soviet plan would scrap all nuclear mines , torpedoes and depth charges , as well as cruise missiles and nuclear bombs and missiles carried on naval aircraft . |
| 6 | The college grind of meetings and tutorials went on . |
| 7 | For three days the discussions and arguments went on . |
| 8 | UN specialists say that the regulations , plans and treaties agreed on by the Mediterranean countries have not significantly curbed the outpouring of sewage and industrial effluent from the 360 million people who live around the Mediterranean basin . |
| 9 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 10 | What arguments and manoeuvres went on behind the scenes ? |
| 11 | Stallholders and shopkeepers looked on with bemusement as he was pelted with bad fruit . |
| 12 | ‘ Them be the Barnes family , ’ whispered Tom as a group of men and women came on in behind them . |
| 13 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 14 | But it was always easy come , easy go : easy-going in many ways , it seems — a characteristic which developed into that ‘ repose ’ and ‘ utter confidence in himself ’ that so many actors and writers remarked on . |