Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you realize — all this was going on exactly the same last March ? |
| 2 | It seems to me , everything 's going on just the same as it was before . |
| 3 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 4 | The man under discussion in the White House was , at that moment , dwelling on precisely the same subject . |
| 5 | While we 're in the process of overturning stereotypes and preconceptions , it 's worth focusing on arguably the , traditionally , most-cited criticism of lawyers — price and value for money . |
| 6 | We laboured for her because we liked her , but she tolerated no lazy work : she was a perfectionist and she had taste , insisting on only the best materials , which was unusual in the suburbs , where Victorian or Edwardian houses were generally smashed open and stripped bare , only to be filled with chipboard and Formica . |
| 7 | On the other hand , massed fire from several cannons can be devastating on even the largest enemy units . |
| 8 | If you carry on I 'll show you the situation worsens as we 've attempted Carrying on on the seventh floor , all the , all the other gangs are still employed working in the previous area . |
| 9 | We have n't got enough Nice to get some work started on the eighth floor because of the different activities But then again with the activities that are carrying on on the seventh floor we ca n't By the time we get round to the ninth pretty desperate . |
| 10 | For those of us who are spared having to wear a uniform to work , the notion of getting out of bed and putting on exactly the same clothes , every day , is simply too boring to contemplate . |
| 11 | At the centre , visitors can see not only the trees flourishing on literally the world 's richest compost . |
| 12 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |
| 13 | Dr Reading and the Swedish scientists began their work independently , neither knowing that the other was working on virtually the same project . |