Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 2 | The tantalising smell of coffee met her as she emerged into the main sitting-room , to see that the low table before one of the chesterfields now bore a white china breakfast-set complete with coffee-pot and plates containing rolls and Danish pastries , while a crystal jar containing some kind of preserve rested on yet another plate containing foil-covered squares of butter . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 4 | When we came up with his problems Paul Gasgoine was having his hair elongated and having bits of hair stuck on . |
| 5 | And there would be all sorts of hanky-panky going on … |
| 6 | Not quite the sort of punt to take on a picnic . |
| 7 | ‘ There seems to be an awful lot of noise going on , darling , ’ said Mrs Wexford sleepily . |
| 8 | I said , there 's loads of building going on and we have had money to do this and it 's jolly well time . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , observers commented , Cambodia 's " recovery " belied the depth of impoverishment brought on by " two decades of war , Khmer Rouge tyranny and economic isolation " . |
| 10 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 11 | ‘ A lot of knitting went on then , too . ’ |
| 12 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 13 | ( By the ‘ original pattern ’ I mean the pattern as designed for single bed knitting , not as punched out for double jacquard ; the double jacquard card is of course moving on at every row . ) |
| 14 | of course goes on about what he always goes on about and er I would remind him that the supplementary estimates which is in the amendment here , is also in the amended motion which is proposed by the Conservatives and had all party support on every committee that it 's come to . |
| 15 | Mario of course went on racing in America . |
| 16 | This of course leads on to — What are YOU prepared to do for the branch ? |
| 17 | The tactics workers adopt are often versatile and frequently covert , so that an intimate knowledge of a particular place of work might be needed in order to be aware of resistance going on . |
| 18 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 19 | Maureen Walker is a ‘ design writer and stylist ’ — after ten years as Home Editor of the Sunday Times and writing a book on interiors , she has a wealth of experience to call on . |
| 20 | Which meant that , for a couple of weeks , an amazing amount of shouting went on . |
| 21 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 22 | They seen a lot of shit going on but I think they were impressed with home we coped with it all , ’ enthuses PD to the eager nods of Paul . |
| 23 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 24 | I 'll take over his boat for you , sell it and my own , set up as a privateer and give you a quarter share , so 's you 'll have a bit of income to live on . " |
| 25 | The process will continue , and with each stage the amount of income passed on to others in the circular flow will be reduced by leakages of taxation , saving , and imports . |
| 26 | With engine running and the faithful mechanic looking on , St George on his white charger within a protective halo of glory looks on ! |
| 27 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 28 | When the ER is fully charged , entry is prevented , but as soon as InsP 3 drains calcium out of these stores , the influx of calcium switches on automatically . |
| 29 | However , the relative efficiency of different screening programmes and the deployment of different kinds of provision following on from screening have not been investigated . |
| 30 | Jess kicked out , catching the handle of his tankard so that a puddle of porter slopped on to the counter . |