Example sentences of "[v-ing] on with the " in BNC.

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1 But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals .
2 He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other .
3 Many of his friends had travelled to South Africa , signing on with the South African Army .
4 In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting .
5 The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve .
6 As Eadmer saw it , the turning point came in 1076 , when Lanfranc was pressing on with the building of the new church , and had recently appointed Henry , his Italian fellow-countryman from Bec , as prior .
7 When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs .
8 ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans .
9 Will he further commend the Secretary of State for pushing on with the tests , despite the opposition of the National Union of Teachers , the Labour party and the Liberal Democrats ?
10 Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday .
11 Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’
12 I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’
13 I say this largely because of what is going on with the black blues artists , like Albert King , BB King , Albert Collins .
14 Now 6 months later I am at The Lighthouse going on with the Lord .
15 There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there .
16 Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval .
17 Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen .
18 So when all these changes were going , going on with the , the machinery , the , the bonus system etcetera etcetera you , you think there were other facilities arose around about the same time which made the work environment still more er still better if you like ?
19 Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back .
20 Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year .
21 Not with all these murders that 's going on with the cos there was that girl was n't there ?
22 Do you know as you come in to Salisbury and you have to keep going on with the traffic , then it leads up to the bridge where the wa , where the river is .
23 Ignore personal attacks and criticism by thanking the opposition for their feedback and then moving on with the positive aspects of your case .
24 We are moving on with the medical services .
25 OK , by now you 've lost valuable time and probably irritated the entire panel by dithering instead of being sure of what you 're going to say , quite apart from getting on with the actual pieces you have learned .
26 From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ .
27 The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist .
28 There was just time for England and Australia to fit in the final Test before getting on with the serious business — serious to those for whom dollar signs are important — of dashing round the country playing game after game after game of the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup .
29 For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening .
30 How are you getting on with the plebs ?
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