Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 2 | This group of researchers went on to compare the effect of extended sleep with reduced sleep ( 5 hours ) , and with displaced sleep , when subjects slept from either 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. or 3 a.m. to 11 a.m . |
| 3 | As the programme of meetings rolled on , sometimes with many presentations on the same day , Horsley was exhilarated , amazed and excited . |
| 4 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 5 | of youngsters stayed on in full-time educational training . |
| 6 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 7 | One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods . |
| 8 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 9 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 10 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 11 | After 1805 the flood of ideas poured on past Wordsworth , without him ; for The Prelude was not published until 1850 . |
| 12 | They heard the horn again , the sound of hounds carried on the still air . |
| 13 | Some of the structures simply ended , hanging in space ; others terminated in smaller versions of the main station , like a cluster of eggs carried on the leg of an insect ; still others , following their skewed paths , met and became united with each other , producing strange hybrids . |
| 14 | What what what sort of things went on ? |
| 15 | What what sort of things went on , erm was it close fighting or did you never see |
| 16 | As ever , we finish with er a lot of things touched on , lots more to talk about . |
| 17 | There were all sorts of arguments went on between and the central defender that 's Phil on loan from Sheffield Wednesday tonight with playing at left back , and what was doing , well maybe could explain to because I could n't fathom it either myself . |
| 18 | The plane from Glasgow via Tiree duly sprayed its way in through the hail and the wind and a new set of passengers filed on . |
| 19 | Each coat of arms touched on is illustrated in full colour , and the augmentation is blazoned . |
| 20 | These cells are classified into about 210 ( according to taste ) different kinds , all built by the same set of genes but with different members of the set of genes turned on in different kinds of cells . |
| 21 | A large collection of sun-hats hung on pegs in the entrance hall , bowls were filled with dried lavender and a huge pottery jar was crammed with walking-sticks , some of which had ornate silver handles . |
| 22 | In a war presented by the government as a struggle between democracy and dictatorship , it was seen as essential that the normal political processes should continue , so the regular pattern of elections went on . |
| 23 | Despite the spread of private pensions , 75 per cent of pensioners lived on less than £3,500 a year . |
| 24 | The plaintiff 's solicitor need not wait until it is all neatly tied up before serving a statement of claim ( although note the operation of RSC Ord 18 , r12(1A — C) in respect of proceedings commenced on or after 4 June 1990 — see para 1.47 below ) . |
| 25 | Last year , in fact , I abstained on a couple of issues voted on at Council . |
| 26 | The dwindling band of men held on until they were relieved on 20 July . |
| 27 | My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men . |
| 28 | ( a ) The reliefs Section 83 of the Finance Act 1985 made very significant changes to the stamping of documents executed on or after 26 March 1985 where property is conveyed or transferred from one party to a marriage to the other . |
| 29 | The tide of Muslims washed on , up into the mosque . |
| 30 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |