Example sentences of "[vb past] on in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 2 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 3 | The one whose house it was got taken away and the other one lived on in the house . |
| 4 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 5 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 6 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 7 | I 'm just too disheartened to intellectualise about the fascists you reported on in the Love Sees No Colour issue ( FACE 44 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 10 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 11 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 12 | They drove on in the darkness , forming one bundle under the cloth . |
| 13 | ‘ I drove on in the car . |
| 14 | Form criticism examines the way in which the traditions of Jesus were preserved and handed on in the time before the writing of the Gospels . |
| 15 | And he walked on in the winter sunshine , the tom-cat smell of the tramp in his nostrils , the wind swelling his clothes , bowling him down the hill towards the station . |
| 16 | I walked on in the dazzle |
| 17 | A hard square of orange light sprang on in the darkness . |
| 18 | Could I , what , what is not , touched on in the notes , but is , I I think the other side of the coin is that , if justice means treating people fairly , this is on the basis of treating the accused fairly . |
| 19 | I drank three pints of water and then eased the wheelbarrow backwards onto firm ground and trundled on in the certainty of my safety . |
| 20 | Class hours are supplemented with 10 hours of visits or activities per two weeks accompanied by a teacher , which are relevant to the projects/topics worked on in the classroom . |
| 21 | A vigorous , and at times vitriolic , debate rumbled on in the pages of Nature and elsewhere , culminating in 1926 with an accusation by the American biologist Gladwyn Noble of outright fraud . |
| 22 | THE Lawson affair rumbled on in the Commons yesterday with the Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , asking the Prime Minister why she did not ‘ tell the truth ’ when she was asked why the former Chancellor of the Exchequer resigned by television interviewer Brian Walden . |
| 23 | For as I say , as I motored on in the sunshine towards the Berkshire border , I continued to be surprised by the familiarity of the country around me . |
| 24 | Oh yes , erm you know , having been brought up w in a you could almost say a quarrying atmosphere that 's the right er expression but erm I mean one knew what w went on in the quarry you know . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 26 | But yes , I mean there was b battering went on in the flats from time to time . |
| 27 | Harry , for his part , exchanged a knowing smile with Papaioannou , then went on in the direction of the village . |
| 28 | It 's the officers working now who are the only ones who can really tell you what went on in the past . |
| 29 | If Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |
| 30 | Jolly Sensible was a restaurant , everyone would be speculating about what went on in the basement . |