Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 2 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 3 | We all knew then that he was n't going to miss out on the Cup final for all the world . |
| 4 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 5 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 6 | " I 'm going to walk out on the street , " Braden said . |
| 7 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 8 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 9 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 10 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 11 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 12 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 13 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 14 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 15 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |
| 16 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 17 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 18 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 19 | Were there any other rival boatmen , people trying to get in on the scene ? |
| 20 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 21 | Forced to convene yet another extraordinary meeting by sacked directors trying to get back on the board , Amalgamated Financial Investments has sent out a suitably apologetic letter to shareholders . |
| 22 | What are you hoping to get down on the list this month ? |
| 23 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |