Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and you slid down twisting on to the grass . |
| 2 | Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand . |
| 3 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 4 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 5 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 6 | In total therefore there are seven times as many graduate men among all employees , so getting on to the wage profiles that grow fastest and last longest is very much a matter of educational credentials . |
| 7 | there and perhaps coming on to the Residents ' Association point that made in their proof , that our forecasts actually show that on balance , er er there would be an increase in flow in fact on the on that route as it approaches the A sixty one . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to turn into one of those old guys who are constantly harping on about the war , about ration books and bomb shelters . |
| 9 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 10 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 11 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 12 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 13 | ‘ The filly was desperate , even falling over walking on to the gallops , ’ Pipe explained , adding that he puts more work into training In-Keeping than three normal horses . |
| 14 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 15 | They have the potential to bring together coherently all the different aspects of planning already going on in every school . |
| 16 | Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 18 | Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back . |
| 19 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 20 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 21 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 22 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 23 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 24 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 25 | For most , just getting on to the list will be the end of the road . |
| 26 | We watched her sway away holding on to the rails , her high curls shining , her figure neat , her intense musky scent lingering like a memory in the air after she herself had gone . |
| 27 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 28 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 29 | Now these are , cards are typed right going on to the sub-committee . |
| 30 | For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness . |