Example sentences of "[vb past] on in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 2 | His voice wandered on in the dull , matter-of-fact tones of someone describing his own environment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 5 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 6 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 7 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 8 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 9 | Happened a lot with Cantona too — the famous Chelsea goal came shortly after Cantona came on in the 8 ? th minute . |
| 10 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 11 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 12 | After a few moments , Sir Henry appeared out of the fog and walked on in the clear moonlight . |
| 13 | I had been aware , intellectually , that the background level of irradiation is really quite high ( as I write the clicking of a geiger counter left switched on in an adjacent room reminds me ) but it took the Phywe cloud chamber to make me realise that irradiation is not a separate thing but truly a part of life . |
| 14 | And now , as they got back into the car , both men sat in silence as they watched the light switched on in the front bedroom — and then the curtains being drawn across . |
| 15 | Merrill dreamed on in a beautiful drowning . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems , ’ he went on in a calmer voice , ‘ that Rickie and Robin-Anne are among the sizeable minority of the population that is peculiarly prone to severe addiction . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 18 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll ring for a taxi , ’ he went on in a flat tone . |
| 20 | He went on in a similar vein . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have other interests now , though , ’ he went on in a friendly , easy manner . |
| 22 | ‘ Partly as a result of excessive leniency , ’ he went on in a familiar line of argument , ‘ there has been developed a pestiferous class of young ruffians who have caused great suffering to the respectable … to whom they have become a terror . ’ |
| 23 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 24 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he went on in a low voice , ‘ I lie awake at night thinking of what would happen to this place if you should die without issue . ’ |
| 25 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 27 | Miraculously , her voice went on in a steady stream , without a quiver , while her mind tried to take in what had happened . |
| 28 | Among the more fascinating of his cases is one of a woman ( whom I shall call Judith ) who , having regressed to being a young woman in a previous lifetime ( we 'll call her Alice ) , went on in a later session to regress to being Alice 's mother — who , it is interesting to note , had died at the precise moment her daughter was born . |
| 29 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 30 | The music stopped and went on in a brisker six-eight rhythm . |