Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 3 | She ca n't keep goin' on like that fer ever . |
| 4 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 5 | Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level . |
| 6 | Making and editing getting on for fifty films would take time , but Karajan was well ahead of the game . |
| 7 | JOHN Major keeps banging on about open government . |
| 8 | There 's probably some name calling going on with TI retorting , ‘ well , it is your design ’ . |
| 9 | I do n't thing anybody will be if he keeps going on like that . |
| 10 | Moving moving on from that point , it does seems to me that the policy clearly is more restrictive than P P G seven and arguably in some respects it 's more restrictive than greenbelt . |
| 11 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 12 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 13 | We keep we keep going on for longer and longer but it 's taking a lot longer for us to get any closer . |
| 14 | If you keep going on like this , right ready let's run over the B M W ! |
| 15 | ‘ Superintendent , I do n't know why you keep harping on about this . |
| 16 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 17 | It looks like you know what you 're talking about , does n't mean you do but i I mean if you use th if you if you start going on about that thing that there is er when some what on earth ? |
| 18 | I am less sure about the Andantino grazioso , which could be more relaxed than here ; it 's as if the performers are anxious that this longish ( and to be honest , maybe too long ) movement should not outstay its welcome , and even here it lasts getting on for three minutes longer than either of the others . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope he was n't delayed rameishing on with some customer today of all days , ’ Benny heard her mother say to Patsy . |
| 20 | and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing . |
| 21 | " Fancy staying on at three-thirty and helping me paint ? " |
| 22 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 23 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |
| 24 | She intended holding on to this new inner peace for as long as she could . |