Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 2 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 3 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 4 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 5 | There was nothing going on in the centre of . |
| 6 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 7 | As she heard me going on about the luncheon party she pulled a face . |
| 8 | Are n't you going on from a mistake ? |
| 9 | ‘ How 's she getting on without a farm manager ? ’ the old maltster asked the younger men . |
| 10 | How are you getting on with the plebs ? |
| 11 | ‘ How are you getting on with the family history ? ’ |
| 12 | After deciding on beer — a pint for me and a half for Sally — we chatted about our golf game and then Sally asked : ‘ How are you getting on with the Brian Harley business ? ’ |
| 13 | How are you getting on with the old battleaxe ? ’ |
| 14 | How you getting on with the erm , you know , being a second class citizen ? |
| 15 | So how are you getting on with the rest of your course ? |
| 16 | A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails . |
| 17 | What are you working on at the moment ? ’ |
| 18 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 19 | Since fires often start at night , and most homes only have one flight of stairs , which may well be unusable , it pays to work out in advance possible escape routes from upstairs windows — ideally one leading on to a flat roof , otherwise one with a flowerbed or grass below , rather than a hard surface . |
| 20 | With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt . |
| 21 | In Ontario , cities are colourful , sophisticated , vibrant and friendly — there 's something going on at every street corner . |
| 22 | Even if she could n't get a game , there 'd be something going on at the club , and it would be better than moping around at home . |
| 23 | We need something dramatic to focus it , either to introduce something which will create a potential for change in this situation ( which will potentially destabilise the situation ) or pick up on something going on in the groups which will have the same effect ; we need to focus on an issue . |
| 24 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 25 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 26 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 27 | In his professed concern for Banquo 's welfare ( III.i.11–38 ) , as in his urging on of the murderers ( III.i.73–139 ) , Macbeth displayed some of his earlier resource in hypocrisy , although the scene with the murderers is laboured , I believe deliberately , to show how energy and invention are gradually deserting him . |
| 28 | There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know . |
| 29 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 30 | As a result , you find yourself hanging on to every word and gesture . |