Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 2 | Do you think it 's really worth going on with this idea ? " |
| 3 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 4 | ‘ Things are going on at this school , ’ went on Dr Ali , in a whisper , ‘ of which it is difficult for a good Muslim to approve . ’ |
| 5 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 6 | I suddenly realized recently that I 'm so far short of having any kind of representational experience that I just do n't know what 's going on in this country . |
| 7 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 8 | You know , but they should be criticised out of hand what 's going on in this country but they bloody do n't ! |
| 9 | What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ? |
| 10 | There does seem to be a lot going on in this neighbourhood . |
| 11 | It 's us and people out there , there is still people out there sighing and crying and groaning under the detestable things that are going on in this world , I 've no doubt you 've met many , but , when they say I do n't know what the world 's coming to , well if you know what 's in your magazines and then your literature and the reasoning book , all these lovely provisions , because you 've devoured it , you 've eaten it like that scroll that John was given , it was sweet to him was n't it ? |
| 12 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 13 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 14 | Packages which checked your spelling , for example , in something you 've put on and very politely suggested that you may or may not have got a word quite correctly spelt that you had intended perhaps spelt one way , it came out as another way , and there must be an awful lot of work going on in this area . |
| 15 | What , what 's going on in this area ? |
| 16 | A TV commentator told viewers during the final morning 's play : ‘ We have seen plenty of seam lifting going on in this match . ’ |
| 17 | People are frightened Ron there is a fear thing going on in this place . |
| 18 | Did her mother guess there was a battle going on in this house ; in fact , various battles ? |
| 19 | that we need some extra cooking going on in this house . |
| 20 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 21 | Carrying on with this tradition , Geoff is the proud owner of a 1960 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire saloon car , which he keeps at his home in Brinklow , Warwickshire . |
| 22 | That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape . |
| 23 | Carrying on from this morning 's thoughts about the occasional slip whilst following the programme , we should also realise that this will happen as we attempt to achieve our other goals in life . |
| 24 | So we 've now obviously got the political will to take action against erm Iraq , do you see them being enough political will following on from this conflict erm I mean we obviously do n't know how the course of this conflict is going to go . |
| 25 | Following on from this logic , Guha has his most ambitious plans in the area of food . |
| 26 | What differentiates them are all the extra functions that have been bolted on , and this is what I 'll be concentrating on in this review . |