Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You run the UK end and I 'll branch out here in Majorca … that 's if Maria Luisa wants to go on living on the island . |
| 2 | FRONT COVER : Jonathan Tomlinson 's home-built 250hp tractor has speeded up silaging on the family livestock farm at Holt , Wrexham , and for contract work . |
| 3 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 4 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 5 | On each occasion the fish ends up lying on the tank floor breathing heavily until it dies . |
| 6 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 7 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 8 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 9 | Speaking on the BBC 's Election Call , the Education Secretary did not rule out abstaining on a Queen 's Speech from a minority Labour government . |
| 10 | I could n't go on speculating on the might have-beens of Stavanger 's life , for there was work to do . |
| 11 | Fists went on hammering on the door . |
| 12 | Wanted to know if I could remember whether Mr Meredith went off riding on the day Anna was attacked . ’ |
| 13 | He could n't bear to wake up screaming on the plane as he so often did alone at night at Robinsgrove . |
| 14 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 15 | If the boat capsizes because it 's overpowered simply scramble into the high side until you end up standing on the daggerboard . |
| 16 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 17 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 18 | CARRY ON LOVING ON THE CAMPUS |
| 19 | What if a rule change , such as the introduction of a new settlement date , is formally communicated to members , but the traders on the floor do not " register " that the change has taken place and carry on trading on the basis of the old date ? |
| 20 | It 's pretty difficult to cross the road on account of all the traffic , so I just carry on walking on the pavement . |
| 21 | The breakthrough in this version is that you can combine a live chart within a spreadsheet display and carry on working on the spreadsheet without having to switch modes . |
| 22 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 23 | We can pick up recording on the way home again . |
| 24 | Laba , who was later to become one of our shipmates , had been a fruit farmer and had only recently taken up sailing on the advice of the local shaman after a string of close calls with pythons . |
| 25 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |
| 26 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |
| 27 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 28 | She was drawn closer and ended up sitting on the arm of his chair , craning past him . |