Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 2 | The wind-sucker is similar to the crib-biter , but manages to swallow air without latching on to any object so the teeth do not suffer abnormal and excessive wear . |
| 3 | Along the length of the coast the story was now everywhere the same : Allied troops hanging on to vulnerable footholds , saved from annihilation only by their dogged courage . |
| 4 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 5 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 6 | The face was grinning , cheekless , with an eye hanging on to bare bone , glistening raw meat where great tooth marks showed clearly it had been half eaten . |
| 7 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 8 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 9 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 10 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 11 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 12 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 13 | Ca n't really see the point of hanging on to old grudges at this late stage . ’ |
| 14 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 15 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 16 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 17 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 18 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 19 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 20 | The number plate 's only hanging on by one screw . |
| 21 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 22 | International : Cotton republic is hanging on by slim thread |
| 23 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 24 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 25 | The certificate was also awarded to Sgt. Curry , who joined the TA in 1965 and served with the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport before signing on with 124 Recovery Company ( Tyne Electrical Engineers ) REME in 1971 . |
| 26 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 27 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 28 | Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling . |
| 29 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 30 | In 1989 the government was still pressing on with further measures of privatization , reforming the legal profession and health service , resisting moves to greater integration within the European Community , and implementing the new system of local government finance and a reformed education system . |