Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wear on leather soled shoes was saved by sticking on over soles made from pieces of old tyre inner tubes . |
| 2 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 3 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 4 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 5 | If we make the ( unrealistic ) assumption that , in driving some variables to integer values , the other variable values do not change much , we can estimate the optimal objective function value of the integer down-problem created by branching on at node k to be where z k is the optimal objective function value of LPk . |
| 6 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 7 | I could 'ear 'er voice goin' on about somefink or the ovver . |
| 8 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 9 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 10 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 11 | Californians have a reputation for latching on to fads , and it 's true — yet a lot of what they preach is eminently sensible . |
| 12 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 13 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 14 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 15 | And it 's catching on with arachnaphobics everywhere . |
| 16 | It 's a taste that seems to be catching on in Japan , replacing a traditional fancy for whale meat , which is now priced well out of the range of most Japanese pockets . |
| 17 | But he despaired of the idea catching on in England : ‘ We could never , I fear , get the youths of this country to go to all this trouble to perfect their play . ’ |
| 18 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |
| 19 | WHEN it comes to home decorating , the colours that find favour in Louisville , Kentucky , could soon be catching on in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal . |
| 20 | They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist . |
| 21 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 22 | There is an urge to recapture the missing person in some way by hanging on to memories , and treasures . |
| 23 | ‘ The way you believe I 'm hanging on to Florian ? ’ she prompted bitterly . |
| 24 | It came as the parents of 12-year-old victim Timothy Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 25 | However , the parents of 12-year-old victim Tim Parry — hanging on to life by a thread in a Liverpool hospital yesterday came to terms with the fact that he is unlikely to survive . |
| 26 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 27 | A multi-tribal alliance of their own is their only chance of hanging on to power when white rule ends at last . |
| 28 | We may be hanging on to relationships which reinforce low levels of self-esteem . |
| 29 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 30 | Pamella ! ’ and I 'm just freaking out and hanging on to Tim Taylor , trying to get to the plane , and I 'm wearing this scarf on my head to cover my face and they had pulled a straw — they said this ! — for who was going to tear the veil from my face and this fat guy got it and ripped it , pulled my hair , poked me in the eye — I was physically assaulted ! |