Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 2 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 3 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 4 | The examination will be conducted by means of a cassette recording for dubbing on to the audio equipment at the Local Centre to achieve universal standards of dictation . |
| 5 | Striker John Borthwick wasted his side 's best opportunity of the half , latching on to a loose ball on the edge of the Stoke penalty area and making space for himself , only to fire lamely at keeper Ronnie Sinclair . |
| 6 | But this has not stopped some librarians latching on to the high cost of conservation as a reason for dispersing valuable books . |
| 7 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 8 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 9 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 14 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 15 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 16 | I will definitely be hanging on to the sweat-stained handkerchief that Tom Jones tossed to my mother back in the Sixties . |
| 17 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 18 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 19 | Delegates placed an overriding emphasis on hanging on to the foreign investment the country has ; on winning back firms wooed away to the Third World ; and on finding new customers . |
| 20 | For high earners , the £75,000 cap is probably the strongest argument for hanging on to an existing Section 226 policy , since such policies are not affected by the earnings limit . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 23 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 24 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 25 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 26 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 29 | For instance , judo flyweight Karen Briggs grappling on with a dislocated shoulder shoved back in its socket . |
| 30 | ‘ Less aggro signing on at the Social Security . ’ |