Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yet there was a sealed-in-cosiness when darkness fell early and the lights came on . |
| 3 | As he entered it , one of the prisoners found the switches , and the lights came on again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Miles signalled , and the hunters drove on . |
| 8 | Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the Three Towns , as elsewhere , the men died and the women lived on and on . |
| 15 | The life of the river and the riverbanks went on about us . |
| 16 | The word Olympic was never used , and the contests dragged on throughout the summer and autumn . |
| 17 | Nutty stopped , and the others went on . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And the celebrations went on long into the night … they could n't have done any better Down Under . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both it and the Tories took on a joint gamble when the Sun talked up the ‘ independence in Europe ’ line . |
| 22 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 23 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 27 | The Red crew gained a length by the mile post and 2 ½ by Hammersmith Bridge , but the freshmen hung on to lose by about the same margin , six seconds behind Red Alligator 's winning time of 19min 46sec . |
| 28 | Phoebe knew when she had reached the lump , but the fingers went on circling , and then probing her armpit . |
| 29 | But the companies strove on , ringing the changes in design , from pointed to rounded to curved to semicircular to double , seeking ever larger spans : Hanover ( 1879 ) , 282 ft. ; Frankfurt am Main ( 1888 ) , 549 ft. ; Leipzig ( 1915 ) , 964 ft . |
| 30 | A huge cow bell was rung at the end of the chukka , but the boys went on playing . |