Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 2 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 3 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 4 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 5 | I bought a copy in of last weeks Daily Telegraph because interestingly enough , the press seems to be latching on to this er not playing by the rules . |
| 6 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 7 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 8 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 9 | Hanging on to all the jobs |
| 10 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 11 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 12 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 13 | If I can lever myself by hanging on to this … . |
| 14 | Why was she hanging on to this ? |
| 15 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 16 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 17 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 18 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 19 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |
| 20 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 21 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 22 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |
| 23 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 24 | But in banging on to such an extent about high taxation , and promising to reduce income tax still further , they have probably missed the public mood . |
| 25 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 26 | Storming on up this I reached an ominous overhang . |
| 27 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 28 | foloowing on in that period — another wicket down — Phil Weston 's caught Taylor bowled Holdsworth — Worcestershire now 151 behind the tourists |
| 29 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 30 | Ask permission before venturing on to any private land . |