Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 2 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 3 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 4 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 5 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 6 | I had , not here , but at home , a very awful experience of somebody camped on to the electricity board , because the power was off , and I was trying to ring them up , and you ca n't get through to somebody who 's camped on to them . |
| 7 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 8 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 9 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 10 | Miranda cut her toast with such force that a corner of it flew on to the floor . |
| 11 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 12 | But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control . |
| 14 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |
| 15 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 16 | At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have . |
| 17 | But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair . |
| 18 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 19 | The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns . |
| 20 | Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the new mums informed of anything going on within the Central Branch . |
| 21 | Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the groups informed of anything going on within the Central Branch . |