Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | With world manufacturing prices growing at less than 1 per cent a year , international competition prevented much passing on of higher unit labour costs . |
| 2 | The officer 's optional dark blue cape , with a black velvet collar , and a black cord fastening , seen here hanging on the left breast . |
| 3 | Would you mind just holding on please ? |
| 4 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 5 | which she said they do have people who do n't progress much staying on |
| 6 | Much of the head-office slashing now going on is an attempt by conglomerates to act like specialists — while remaining conglomerates . |
| 7 | Now these are , cards are typed right going on to the sub-committee . |
| 8 | She had been a top model — her legs alone were insured for a five figure sum and he had enough hanging on him to bankrupt a smaller company . |
| 9 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 10 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 11 | They have the potential to bring together coherently all the different aspects of planning already going on in every school . |
| 12 | Now , with filming still going on , he is living in a converted barn just 10 miles from Mayle 's own home . |