Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young maintained contact with his previous management consultancy clients who were already half-way convinced of headhunting , but he was prepared for much knocking on familiar and unfamiliar doors and cold-calling to drum up more business in a practical way . |
| 2 | The match was a hard-fought contest and after much cheating on their part , the prisoners ran out 3–0 victors with a doubtful hat-trick by Rudolph Hess . |
| 3 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 4 | Dr Gysi had the advantage of being a completely new face in mainstream East German politics , after previously concentrating on defending dissidents and fighting for the recognition of opposition groups . |
| 5 | Here , Mr. Christopher Lawrence-Price had kindly lent his charming first floor flat to Miss Deborah Bennett , to give a little party to celebrate the fifth year of successfully working on her own in marketing and public relations . |
| 6 | Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident . |
| 7 | However well prepared teachers are , their lives are ones of constantly living on their wits . |
| 8 | Anyone entering the shrine committed the insult of literally stepping on the head of the Roman emperor . |
| 9 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 10 | But I said that and sort of just holding on a level now like , is n't it ? |
| 11 | Now I 'm suggesting that an evaluator might , instead of just concentrating on one set of values , deliberately try and look at several , so they might , for example , identify that there were a group of people who felt that history should be taught in a certain particular way for a certain purpose . |
| 12 | The importance of persuading individuals to save for their own pension instead of just relying on the State has been recognised by successive governments . |
| 13 | Instead of just relying on your union , . |
| 14 | ‘ Evening Landlord , Master Gates , ’ he spoke in a loud voice and exercised his usual habit of momentarily standing on tip toes as he addressed them . |
| 15 | Always assuming the unlikelihood of ever getting on disc a pluperfect realisation of Bartók 's Second Violin Concerto , this new release from the prodigiously-gifted Anne-Sophie Mutter will come close enough for most people . |
| 16 | It is her methods , and those of the other anthropologists mentioned , that are our major interest here , but this problem does highlight , at an early stage , one of the basic drawbacks of ethnography — the impossibility of ever checking on the findings of such research by exactly repeating it . |
| 17 | But this brings with it the potential for change , allowing them to become agents instead of passively relying on Oa . |
| 18 | Studies at King 's College School of Medicine show that even a short period of hard pedalling on an exercise bike diverts blood flow from the uterus to the legs , ‘ stealing ’ oxygen from the foetus . |
| 19 | The answer is that it saw the way the wind was blowing and instead of desperately tripping its users up as they tried to move to open systems , it embraced them wholeheartedly , giving users the option of either staying on the slow track with an MPE V operating system that over time would converge with Unix , or taking the fast track and jumping across to the HP 9000 . |
| 20 | But the days of aimlessly wandering on enemy beaches were over and specific targets could be raided despite their defences : targets the scientists and planners calculated as most likely to influence the war . |
| 21 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 22 | There may be considerable scepticism about Pascal 's case for always wagering on the outsider if the odds are high enough . |
| 23 | He wished she was n't for ever tapping on the door of the room that was meant to be his , calling out to him when he did n't answer . |
| 24 | After all , there is a vast difference between deliberately stamping on another person 's toes and accidentally tripping over their foot . |
| 25 | They had difficulty finding a drummer and went through 10 in a year , recording several demo tapes with different people , before finally settling on Shaun Charman . |
| 26 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |
| 27 | Work a number of test pieces before finally deciding on the tension you are going to use and sample . |
| 28 | In the decades since , it 's been glanced at by the likes of Hal Ashby , Anthony Quinn and Jack Nicholson , before finally arriving on the desk of Blake Edwards , where a script by Cry Freedom writer John Briley jostles for space with Son Of Pink Panther . |
| 29 | Negotiations went into recess on Sept. 3 , but resumed on Sept. 14 before finally ending on Sept. 24 . |
| 30 | We have not as yet got out any form of formal consultation process , erm , but obviously erm , if erm , if that 's what members er , of this Committee wish , erm , then we would do so , and we would be advised as to whether that should be in advance of P and R , or whether members would wish to wait for the , the results of P and R Committee before formally embarking on , on consultation there . |