Example sentences of "on in [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he could always fathom what went on in Morton 's head . |
| 2 | After the third knocking a light went on in Jessie 's room ; then there was the sound of muffled voices . |
| 3 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 4 | When I came off , I felt I needed to sort of keep in touch , sort of speaking to people that know what 's going on and know what 's going on in ex-users ' heads , y'know . |
| 5 | No lights on in Rose 's cottage . |
| 6 | What goes on in Ludo 's brain ? |
| 7 | This Marco Polo spirit lives on in Liberty 's buyers to this day . |
| 8 | Another reason why the country needs to be saved from a Labour Government is that it is bad enough to have the type of nonsense that went on in Luigi 's restaurant happening when the Labour party is in opposition , but it would be especially ridiculous if it happened with the Labour party in government . |
| 9 | A light seems to go on in Lucker 's head . |
| 10 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 11 | Therese , conscious , as was everyone else , of a row of gargantuan proportions going on in Gesner 's dressing room , was blithely uncaring . |
| 12 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 13 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 14 | So ARE there any passionate toyboys or immoral goings on in Gloucestershire 's own Paradise . |
| 15 | While the tribute often remained unpaid , as in the case of Sicily , where an annual payment of 30,000 tarims ( about £100,000 ) had been agreed on in Frederick 's minority , it provided a source of income which the political activities of the popes in their dealings with the separate kingdoms suggest was definitely worthwhile . |
| 16 | I do n't mean helmeted sentries literally do patrol the walls by night , I do n't mean even that anything 's actually been seen , but the things that go on in people 's minds are realities , and do influence events . |
| 17 | She dimly perceived the terrible conflict that went on in Johnny 's mind between the dark side of his nature and the knowledge of how he should behave — of the actions expected of him because , as he would have put it , he was a Gentleman . |
| 18 | You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’ |
| 19 | THERE is a sly line early on in Quartermaine 's Terms when one of the characters claims a dislike of Chekhov . |
| 20 | And second because she knows what goes on in Audrey 's seemingly empty head . |