Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 3 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 4 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 5 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 6 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 7 | For most , just getting on to the list will be the end of the road . |
| 8 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 9 | Now these are , cards are typed right going on to the sub-committee . |
| 10 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |
| 11 | ‘ Cept there 's more goin' on in the evenin 's with First Aid and the like . ’ |
| 12 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 13 | It was Ranald who explained , always keeping on at the massage . |
| 14 | Firbas , for instance , suggests that ‘ the basic distribution of CD is implemented by a series of elements opening with the element carrying the very lowest and gradually passing on to the element carrying the very highest degree of CD ’ ( 1974 : 22 ) . |
| 15 | You feel there 's always more going on underneath the surface than he 's prepared to let on . |
| 16 | However , some natural change has gone on and is still going on in the country , and physical changes need to be anticipated in any local study . |
| 17 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 18 | Montrose House would of course not be the only cost-effective alternative but it does give some idea of the scandalous waste of resources which is still going on in the semi-State sector . |
| 19 | Why not deal with the beam instead of for ever going on about the mote ? |
| 20 | Always going on about the Fate of the Graduate Wife and how she 's fed up being a cabbage — well as far as I 'm concerned I can not see the call for langwidge . |
| 21 | She 's always going on about the way people behave nowadays . |
| 22 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 23 | This done , she whipped up a piece of tape , which she tied some inches from the bottom ; then , while still holding on to the hair with one hand , her other hand shot out and pulled open a drawer from which she grabbed a pair of large scissors . |
| 24 | He turned and charged quickly off into the forest to rescue his friend , only to find a German splayed out on the ground and Tommy still running on up the hill . |
| 25 | Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car . |
| 26 | She dumped the bouquets she was still carrying on to the passenger-seat . |
| 27 | It seemed that the sad little snipe were the victims of a blood lust still carrying on from the heyday of Victorian game hunting . |
| 28 | Investigations are also going on into the state holding company , Corfo , the housing ministry and a state-owned bank where new officials have uncovered high-handed property transfers and loans made either to the army as an institution or to individual officers . |
| 29 | Actresses are also creeping on to the catwalk , offering their services in exchange for a couple of outfits . |
| 30 | Idea now catching on at the double |