Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] on in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 2 | The light was switched on in the other box and Liam Devlin smiled through at me . |
| 3 | The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades . |
| 4 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 5 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 6 | The coach work was carried on in the trimming shop which was in Friary Lane but , from then on , Farr 's business was on a downward path , finally closing in 1929 . |
| 7 | In our medical blocks oxygen was laid on in pipelines , but as surgical patients seldom needed continuous oxygen for long periods , the surgical side still used cylinders . |
| 8 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 9 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 10 | I could discover no mention whatever of the fact that this conference was going on in its city erm but there was one mention of evolution . |
| 11 | Owen asked how John Postlethwaite was getting on in the ministry . |
| 12 | The postman was taken on in September 1990 and resigned recently . |
| 13 | We wondered how Pop was getting on in Mayrnyo without us , but dear Madriya and his wife had stayed to look after him and the soldiers . |
| 14 | Mr Annesley said his senior officers were ‘ rigorously assisting ’ Mr Stevens , while Mr Brooke said the investigation was going on in a ‘ thoroughly effective ’ way . |
| 15 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 16 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 17 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 18 | A tribunal was decided on in Rome and Philip sent ambassadors to plead his case . |
| 19 | The game was carried on in silence . |
| 20 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
| 21 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |
| 22 | What the hell was going on in the child 's mind . |
| 23 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 24 | It came in a stone mug , deliciously cold and wiping out in one mouthful the heat of the morning and the traces of last night 's headache ( he wondered briefly how the Engineer regiment was getting on in its battle positions ; by now they should be dug in and pausing for sips of lukewarm water or barely warmer tea . |
| 25 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 26 | In November , an excellent demonstration of the OSCR System was put on in Plymouth by Andy Talbot , Arthur Shrimpton and Robin Stephens , raising considerable interest in this new acquisition . |
| 27 | This fight was going on in the middle of the road . |
| 28 | Evidence that oathing was going on in the reserve was at first dismissed with the claim that the Masai involved were ‘ half-and-halfs ’ , that is , the offspring of a Masai father and a Kikuyu mother : the loyalty of the ‘ pure Masai ’ was thought to be beyond question . |
| 29 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |
| 30 | Miss Honey wondered what on earth was going on in the mind of this child . |