Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , if a reviewer starts going on about something other than the game s/he is obviously telling you that the game has not really got anything different in terms of game play to offer . |
| 2 | Grey breath in the air , snowmen on the heath , pub bores droning on about how typical it is that a few inches of snow throws the whole country into chaos when the Swiss handle metres of the stuff without missing a beat . |
| 3 | What do you think dear , cos this child keeps moping on about bread |
| 4 | As for the iron test , my child sat holding on to Mummy while being read to . |
| 5 | Jean Henderson , despite being so fond of her work , never for a moment contemplated carrying on after marriage . |
| 6 | There 's probably some name calling going on with TI retorting , ‘ well , it is your design ’ . |
| 7 | Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line . |
| 8 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 9 | You 've no call to go whingeing on about morals when you 're making up to Adam in this very office . |
| 10 | If a man starts droning on about whether I 'm sisterly enough or not , I start talking about my hopes of marrying a rich , masterful husband and learning to cook Baked Alaska . |
| 11 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 12 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 15 | Oh , dad keeps going on about it , I 'll say that ! |
| 16 | I confess I can not really see worm watching catching on as a mass pursuit with worm watcher clubs and organised field visits , but I did hear of an infants ' school where the worm has joined the tadpole as a creature for study . |