Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 2 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 3 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
| 4 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 5 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 6 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 7 | Do you mind if I just go on in the way I 'm used to ? ’ |
| 8 | Lawler moved away from the wall and immediately stubbed his toe against a heavy cast-iron ornament that had been placed out of the way while the small oval table it normally stood on in the lobby was being repaired . |
| 9 | Well they just struggle on in the Wintertime |
| 10 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 11 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 12 | The fight to save wildlife still goes on in the Shetlands . |
| 13 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 14 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 15 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 16 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 17 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 18 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 19 | Success or failure , the Grendon inmates always move on in the end ; either back to the prison system , or parole , or release . |
| 20 | And now a shabby mischance had destroyed it , knocked down the precarious walls of my prison , I still sat on in the wreckage and kept my eyes closed , safe behind broken bars . |
| 21 | Sugar and fat are also frowned on in the report because they can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods . |
| 22 | Bachelors were rather frowned on in the FCO . |
| 23 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 24 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 25 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 26 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 27 | It 's wonderful , is n't it , when trades have trade papers that can help them understand what is really going on in the world . |
| 28 | The MPs hope that talks now going on in the City between consultants and finance houses might help to raise cash — but at least one MP , Labour 's energy guru , Arthur Palmer , is not optimistic . |
| 29 | They wo n't send over the 2,000 word revelation on what really went on in the referee 's room at Lord 's , when the Texaco Trophy ball was changed , until BT fix the fault . |
| 30 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |