Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 2 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 3 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 4 | ‘ In no way will there be enough teams left to carry on in the age groups concerned . |
| 5 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 6 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 7 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 8 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 9 | They each had totally different stories , totally different perceptions of what had gone on in the meetings . |
| 10 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |