Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadie 's bin givin' me the bloody ‘ ump the way she 's bin goin' on about our Billy . |
| 2 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 3 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 4 | … which is not until Act 5 , when the poet re-enters briefly , prattling on to his captors ' exasperation . |
| 5 | Hanging on to her temper , and , it had to be admitted , her rioting feelings , with an effort , she retorted , ‘ To someone like you , perhaps . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't any serious plans to marry him , if that 's what you 're asking , ’ she told him as levelly as she could , and had the hardest work in the world in hanging on to her temper when his glance flicked from her through the open door into her sitting-room . |
| 7 | They glanced at Tabitha encumbered with Perks , forcing their claws from her arms , standing on one foot trying to shake one that was hanging on to her leg . |
| 8 | Sister explained to me , ‘ The poor old dear 's in a fine twitter as she thought the bus was stopping , not starting — ’ Sister shot off to meet an anxious young woman with a baby in her arms and a small tearful boy hanging on to her skirt . |
| 9 | Kneeling over her lower body , his belly hanging on to her knees , he began gently to cut off her panties . |
| 10 | And please let them be hanging on to their gossip and porter . |
| 11 | It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing . |
| 12 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 13 | Schellenberg , who felt that he was only hanging on to his sanity by his fingernails , said , ‘ But , Reichsführer , what if Devlin does n't wish to be persuaded ? ’ |
| 14 | He swung himself astride the dragon awkwardly , because Rincewind was hanging on to his belt . |
| 15 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 16 | He kept rolling , still hanging on to his weapons , and fell over the front of the Jeep and on to the pavement outside . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , Jim Courier was last night hanging on to his world No 1 ranking and survival in the $2.5m IBM ATP World Championships by his finger tips . |
| 18 | HE SAYS : ‘ Hanging on to your hair helps but I have n't got any of the old films on tape and it is just as well , ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Did they make up all those pictures of blondes , brunettes , redheads , hanging on to your arm ? ’ |
| 20 | and there was this ginger and white cat hanging on to our fence |
| 21 | Sometimes the ferret is even in the process of killing the rabbit , is hanging on by its teeth and is dragged out with the rabbit . |
| 22 | She said the immense pressure she had been under took its toll and at times she was so emotionally and physically exhausted she was ‘ just hanging on by my fingernails ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I remember one who was literally hanging on by his fingertips when we arrived , but we 've always got them up in the end . ’ |
| 24 | Climbing on to her back , he used the halter shank to whip her into a lumbering unaccustomed trot , as he made his way back to the stable-yard . |
| 25 | Apparently IBM , which offers the AP/6000 office package on the RS/6000 , is not at all perturbed about ICL muscling on to its territory with OfficePower . |
| 26 | As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie ! |
| 27 | The three of them are spending Christmas with us , which will be lovely , but no doubt a bit fraught , as one highly active child will be joined by one ditto kitten , who thinks nothing of leaping on to your lap at mealtimes , digging her claws into your legs for support . |
| 28 | Nonetheless , the Conservatives are still pressing on with their plans to stand in all 17 constituencies in Northern Ireland and to give the electorate the chance to accept or reject their programme for governing the country . |
| 29 | ‘ She would keep banging on about her son . |
| 30 | ‘ O Lord ! ’ she said , speaking extra loud to drown out Tracy mumbling on about her womb . |