Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ran the first thousand words with me meandering on about going to meet Boy George as a cover feature . |
| 2 | It thus comes as little surprise to find that police and fans share similar commonsense conceptions of territoriality , and that their accounts of what goes on during ‘ raids ’ on Ends have much in common . |
| 3 | What these two exponents have in common is their deep concern for the education of children and their considerable reservations about what goes on in the name of education in our present institutions . |
| 4 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 5 | We know far more about what goes on in the world , i.e. we have far more reliably formed true beliefs about it , than we do about our own beliefs about what goes on in the world : beliefs about honey , thistles , etc . |
| 6 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 7 | He got into Cadogan 's early , and found himself with two empty hours in which to get on with his work before anyone else showed up . |
| 8 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 9 | Ginny was now living on a part-time basis with David , Leo 's son by his first marriage ; Leo hoped that Ginny and David would marry and produce a host of little Quests for him to dote on in his old age . |
| 10 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 11 | According to Alistair Kelman , however , many companies do not even comply with the Companies Act by keeping detailed records of what goes on in their computer systems . |
| 12 | She had on that special queasy-bright look women like her put on for girls of my age . |