Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 2 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 3 | The gossip was that the farmer who owned the land was merely hanging on till the price came up to his requirements , then some builder would carve out of the hillside a super executive-type estate , with views for fifteen miles and mortgages for fifty years . |
| 4 | The car went racing on while the friends tried to tidy up the mess . |
| 5 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 6 | They 're part of a re-organisation which has been going on since the Nationwide merged with the Anglia Building Society five years ago . |
| 7 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 8 | When we have those results we will really be able to sort out what is going on when a golfer tries to hit that wee white ball . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's something special going on when a chap pulls out his chequebook and writes you a cheque for £13,000 right there in the car park , ’ he enthuses . |
| 10 | Utilitarianism is a properly ethical theory , inasmuch as it puts forward the basics of a moral position , while emotivism belongs to what is sometimes called meta-ethics which professes to explain the nature of what is going on when an ethical or moral view is advocated . |
| 11 | If the Minister for Sport was on the Treasury Bench , I would ask him — instead , I ask all hon. Members and the country — what is going on when the general secretary of the Central Council of Physical Recreation puts his name and that of his organisation to a positive argument in favour of tobacco sponsorship in sport ? |
| 12 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 13 | It does n't matter if the original chirp is still going on when the echo returns . |
| 14 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 15 | She cared about surviving , about remaining very still and suffering , enduring , holding on until the train reached Chancery Lane . |
| 16 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 17 | In education , since 1979 the percentage of pupils staying on until the fifth year has increased from 35 per cent . |
| 18 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 19 | I felt a migraine coming on as the old girl began to wail and Zylpha screamed a torrent of abuse . |
| 20 | And now the fat bellies in the cities are carrying on where the white folk left off . |
| 21 | Ken Tyson recreates the advanced projects that Japan was working on before the atomic bombs brought World War Two to a close . |
| 22 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |