Example sentences of "these [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | These forums had been held before the move was considered to provide lines of communication between management and staff but , the company notes , these meetings took on a new usefulness when the relocation was announced . |
| 2 | These activities went on in the Great Workshop , where the looms were installed . |
| 3 | For it is the kind of work that these individuals carried on with the knowledge that they were seeking to improve life on earth , that set the example for the vast mass of the human race to follow and thereby perpetuate , albeit largely unknowingly , the strengthening and augmentation of the Created God . |
| 4 | But the discussion on Polybius provoked by these pamphlets went on at intervals at least until 1783 . |
| 5 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 6 | These arguments rumbled on into 1947 . |
| 7 | Some of these entrepreneurs went on to form proper companies , one of which was the AERONautical Company of America — better known as AERONCA . |
| 8 | District competitions were held over a period of six months and finalists and runners-up from these matches went on to represent their district at the area competition . |
| 9 | Two of the boys from amongst these pioneers went on to study Mathematics at Cambridge , with great success , to Daniels ' pride : J. G. Adshead of Caius College , who eventually became Professor of Mathematics at Dalhousie University , Nova Scotia , and W. L. Edge of Trinity College , who held a similar post in the University of Edinburgh . |
| 10 | These clouds took on startling devilish shapes , progressing towards us . |
| 11 | When the guns exploded from the Rebecca 's beam , three of the boats capsized in the heave of the sea under the impact of the cannonballs ; in spite of their horror of the lightless waves , some of these warriors swam on , thinking to scale the vessel . |
| 12 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |