Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 32 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 33 | Sadie 's bin givin' me the bloody ‘ ump the way she 's bin goin' on about our Billy . |
| 34 | Goin' on about the seats all the time she was . |
| 35 | ‘ What 're those dogs goin' on about ? ’ |
| 36 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 37 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 38 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 39 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 40 | UNCITRAL likewise engages in widespread consultation , drawing widely on the expertise of practising specialists . |
| 41 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 42 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 43 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 44 | Instead , by sticking inflexibly for instant PR , claiming all the credit for constitutional reform , and continuing to rubbish Labour , Paddy Ashdown did his own party , and the cause of constitutional reform , a disservice . |
| 45 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 46 | As he made his way up , feeling like a schoolboy with skimped prep , his eye caught , with a start of surprise , the rotund shape of Mr Kronweiser , eyes darting suspiciously in all directions , working at a desk . |
| 47 | Drawing nervously on his cigarette , a uniformed guard said : ‘ What shall I say ? |
| 48 | Male peasants in the fields wear their distinctive broad-brimmed straw hats , with their coats hanging loosely over their shoulders . |
| 49 | Arty was still asleep , one arm hanging loosely over the side . |
| 50 | Now he squatted , toad-like , by Berowne 's body , his hands hanging loosely in front of him , palely disembodied . |
| 51 | The form begins with the practitioner standing naturally , his feet shoulder-width apart and his arms hanging loosely by his side . |
| 52 | As the ground drifted up he saw the barbarian standing stock still , chest heaving , arms hanging loosely by his sides . |
| 53 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 54 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 55 | Like Jesus , they were , after all , devout Jews , working and preaching wholly within the context of established Judaic tradition . |
| 56 | Some of the common strategies deployed within lyrics , for instance creating the impression of the lyric 's reader as an intruder gazing voyeuristically into texts meant for private circulation , is one of the devices employed by poets to protect themselves . |
| 57 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 58 | ‘ What are you blathering on about ? ’ |
| 59 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 60 | but I do n't think Telecom 's up to dating things , Telecom keeps rabbitting on about how clever they are at doing this |