Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 3 | In focusing on different and only partly overlapping areas for research in code switching , researchers differentiate themselves as sharply by their methodology as by their interests . |
| 4 | This project aims to provide solid evidence as to whether Britain is indeed out of line with other advanced industrial societies by comparing its pattern of spending on academic and academically related research with that of France , Japan , the Netherlands , West Germany and the United States . |
| 5 | Empirical studies of older cultural institutions , drawing on historical as well as sociological procedures , include Collins ( 1928 ) , Beljame ( 1948 ) , Altick ( 1957 ) , Williams ( 1961 ) and Escarpit ( 1966 ) . |
| 6 | I tried to stop her but she kept on putting on more and more outside gear . |
| 7 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 8 | Yes , it 's , it 's possibly worth mentioning on that as well that , in comparison with the supply based , I mean the existing system is demand based , which is silly , because we have to have fire stations there even if they never go out , if they go out twice a year , we still have to have a fire station in loco , but with the demand based model that 's illustrated in A C C based initiative , it 's based on existing supply , and this authority has a fairly frugal level of supply in comparison with some other authorities , so what happens is that if you apply it to existing supply then we come out quite badly . |
| 9 | Well I would say , I mean you you would be working on that and then be working on something else . |
| 10 | At the moment , sad to say that physical vertical is the most effective means of slowing people down and and narrowings and visual erm signs and that kind of thing , road markings , do not have the same effect er but we are working on that and hopefully in our next batch of schemes we will start to experiment with things like speed cushions and what have you which , which have a lesser effect on , on erm on both minibuses and buses . |
| 11 | Part of hir was afraid Jahsaxa was planning on more than just keeping hir as a highclass whore . |