Example sentences of "[adj] things [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers have constantly to buttonhole each other as they pass in the staffroom and tack extra things to do on to the bottom of each other 's already overlong agendas . |
| 2 | There were all sorts of busy monkish things going on in the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Sacco Benedetto . |
| 3 | ‘ It is a particular shame for Neil because there were far worse things going on in the game but some people only want to see the dark side of him . |
| 4 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 5 | This is blue-sky country where they play their music in that western way , the women are sultry , the men drawl from beneath crew-cuts — and shocking things go on behind the blinds and the white picket fences . |
| 6 | Now in what what other things go on in the flats that you get involved with ? |
| 7 | Er what other things go on in the flats ? |
| 8 | It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket . |
| 9 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |