Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page |
| 2 | in theory they should not be able to talk to each-other because they 're either answering the phone and talking to somebody else bloody getting on looking at the screen and typing |
| 3 | After that he was a changed man , keeping everyone away from him and insisting on moving to the North Bastion Tower . ’ |
| 4 | The Baptists of Amersham were only doing what the universal Church had done for centuries in insisting on partaking in the Communion as a sign of being ‘ in communion ’ with the church . |
| 5 | A statute of 1388 attempted to reinforce the Statute of Labourers , the measure enacted to control wages after the Black Death of 1348–49 , but attempts in 1389 to put it into practice showed that men were trying to shake off the stigma of villein tenure , even at the cost of taking a cash wage worth less in real terms than the combination of cash and food which they had been paid previously , insisting on working by the day rather than contracting for a yearly wage , and exploiting the possibility of alternative employment ( 65 , pp.92–5 ) . |
| 6 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
| 7 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 8 | I was n't planning on coming to the Moat House with it and recording a conversation |