Example sentences of "[v-ing] on with the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's sort of waving one arm and hanging on with the other . |
| 2 | As Eadmer saw it , the turning point came in 1076 , when Lanfranc was pressing on with the building of the new church , and had recently appointed Henry , his Italian fellow-countryman from Bec , as prior . |
| 3 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 4 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 5 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 6 | There were all sorts of things going on with the WTA board , and I took a leadership position there . |
| 7 | Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back . |
| 8 | Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’ |
| 9 | Now 6 months later I am at The Lighthouse going on with the Lord . |
| 10 | Do you know as you come in to Salisbury and you have to keep going on with the traffic , then it leads up to the bridge where the wa , where the river is . |
| 11 | Because there was so little going on with the band I arranged to give myself a bit of a holiday . |
| 12 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 13 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 14 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 15 | Our very limited resources are all tied up in getting on with the work . |
| 16 | In any large , structured company , some people are better motivators and better at getting on with the work force than others . |
| 17 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 18 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 19 | So how are you getting on with the rest of your course ? |
| 20 | The manager has to be honest , competent and use common sense , while getting on with the artist . |
| 21 | Yeah , he is , he 's very easily led , Ryan , you know , and he 's very into , you know , getting on with the gang . |
| 22 | ‘ How are you getting on with the family history ? ’ |
| 23 | As one who grew up in the Dark Ages and is , as a result , spiritually stunted and psychologically scarred , I regularly find myself cringing at the sight of moaning footballers and speculating , in a twisted fashion , on how much better they might play if all the energy spent on operating the jaws were to be concentrated on getting on with the game . |
| 24 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 25 | You almost end up yearning with the RAF trainees to be back in the cockpit getting on with the business : flying . |
| 26 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 27 | ‘ There they are , innocent , uncomplicated and trusting , accepting the world for what it is and getting on with the business of enjoying it . |
| 28 | Instead of ‘ getting on with the job ’ , as the horsemen say , a colt or stallion may respond to the mare with fear , aggression , or playfulness — behaviour which normal animals display towards strange or novel objects . |
| 29 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 30 | People often feel that pinpointing a precise objective wastes time that could be used more productively getting on with the job in hand . |