Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] on at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 2 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 3 | The Blumenthalstrasse address turned out to be one of the shoeboxes , a five-storey block of flats with the staircase and lift-shaft stuck on at the side of a column of frosted-glass bricks . |
| 4 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 5 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 6 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |
| 7 | I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation . |
| 8 | It consisted of the straight robe mentioned above , with an elaborate flounced and layered over-skirt tied on at the waist . |
| 9 | Have you got a spare T'shirt to put on at the end if it gets cold ? |
| 10 | As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’ |
| 11 | Palace spokesmen continually insisted : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 13 | There 's a number-plate racket going on at the moment . |
| 14 | If they seriously believe that in the context of the present constitutional crisis between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom they can introduce what are crude and dangerous league tables into Scottish education — and do so by means of a single clause tacked on at the end of an English and Welsh Bill which is otherwise wholly irrelevant to Scotland — they have taken leave of their collective senses . |
| 15 | In any case , Stephen 's mother uses Hilary as an excuse to stay on at the Manor and I want rid of her . ’ |
| 16 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 17 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 18 | There 's a lot of brinkmanship going on at the moment , a lot of er , horse-trading I dare say , going on as well . |