Example sentences of "[subord] [art] [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where the processes carried on or the machinery installed are such as could be carried on or installed in any residential area without detriment to amenity of that area by reason of noise , vibration , smell , fumes , soot ash , dust or grit ’ . |
| 2 | Darren 's gulps were immediately checked although the tears flowed on . |
| 3 | I would get a lot of satisfaction if the players went on to do well . ’ |
| 4 | There were wailings and tears , and everywhere men sat dejected in front of their stalls while the women looked on , silent and shocked . |
| 5 | While the others went on to further success he fought and eventually won a battle against alcoholism , but his writing partnership with Cleese did not survive it , and , at his own choice , he was not a member of the Python film company Prominent Features . |
| 6 | Then she could actually see what was going on in the family , which was that her mother was servicing her father , who just looked out of the window most of the time , psychically speaking , while the siblings got on with their rivalry . |
| 7 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 8 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 9 | There seemed only one answer , for India had seldom boasted fast bowlers of sufficient quality to operate much beyond the first half-dozen shine-removing overs before the spinners came on for the rest of the innings . |
| 10 | I think I would maybe go to a match if the women played a wee game before the men came on . |
| 11 | He 'd be talking to some man all evening , they 'd be getting on very well indeed as far as we could all see , but then Miss P would still be there alone when the lights went on , and the man would have gone . |
| 12 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 13 | And when the lights went on again in Belfast in 1945 General Eisenhower , later President , was a guest in the Royal Box . |
| 14 | When the lights came on , Raoul ran . |
| 15 | He ate his dinner and said nothing , played his violin and felt nothing , worked when the lights came on again and went to bed without another thought . |
| 16 | Some of us were still there to see Oxford when the lights came on again : V.E. night saw floodlighting return not only to some of the ancient buildings but also ( with apparatus hastily improvised by members of the university ) to a magnificent horse chestnut tree in Parks Road in full blossom , its blaze of floodlit white ‘ candles ’ making a spectacular welcome to the return of peace and light . |
| 17 | IF YOU missed the October march when the heavens opened on over 200,000 supporters , there 's still time to do your bit for the miners . |
| 18 | ‘ I used to practise my putting when the ads came on , ’ he said . |
| 19 | When the hearings came on , they explained , they would run upstairs and lock the door , or try to switch channels , or read the comics , or tidy the house . |
| 20 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 21 | When the cuffs went on he had braced the sinews of his wrists to secure the maximum space when he relaxed . |
| 22 | As the Warriors moved on , the section commanders continued to tell their men over the vehicle briefing system what they were to do and what they should expect . |
| 23 | Joseph hung back walking slowly as the others moved on again , and his mother , noticing his discomfited expression , waited for him at the side of the track . |
| 24 | All the nomes stood stock still as the noises went on around them . |
| 25 | ‘ All right , let's party ! ’ shouted BCCI official Sibte Hassan as the handcuffs snapped on . |
| 26 | Gradually , as the armies pushed on through France , French airfields were taken over by the RAF and the Americans , and one day Jimmy and Henry were posted to a station near Rennes and that was the last we saw of them . |
| 27 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 28 | She pushed herself away again as soon as the lights came on , shook her head . |
| 29 | She stood back and acknowledged the applause of the crowd as the lights came on again and we were able to concentrate on our dessert . |
| 30 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |