Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 2 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 're going on to Matson , you might find a bit of it useful . |
| 4 | As far as I 'm concerned , that was the understatement of the year — we 'll let you know how we 're getting on after Skipper and I have enjoyed the summer together . |
| 5 | It 's a very political play O K So now we 're moving on to George |
| 6 | There are projects we 're working on in Santa Barbara that — ’ |
| 7 | Negotiations for a concordat had been going on between Spain and the Vatican for about the same length of time as those between Spain and the United States . |
| 8 | Section 40 consultations have been going on since May 1988 and BR 's plan is expected in the late Autumn of 1989 . |
| 9 | Negotiations have been going on since October 1990 and it seems that the Treasury was querying its £4 million valuation . |
| 10 | Work has been going on since October to convert a church basement into a sophisticated club for people aged between 14 and 18 . |
| 11 | With BA unable to complete a deal on the Dutch terms the talks , which had been going on since September 1991 , finally collapsed . |
| 12 | Its new home is Courtaulds ' technical library , where training sessions have been going on since mid-November . |
| 13 | Work has been going on in Oxford , partly funded by the Trust , to understand more about meningitis , why and how it can kill ; exactly what the founders in Stroud wanted in the panicky days of 1986 . |
| 14 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 15 | However let us turn to what has been going on in Mid-Wales : — |
| 16 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 17 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 18 | Now , there 's something been going on in Argyle Street in Glasgow this lunchtime which has attracted the interest of more than a few people hereabouts . |
| 19 | For 38 years , a dirty , secret war has been going on in Guatemala , a war which has largely been ignored by the outside world . |
| 20 | But the two men had argued that the emergency had been going on in Northern Ireland for so long , it was a question whether it was a crisis situation or if it had become normal . |
| 21 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 22 | THE lights are going on in Bucharest . |
| 23 | Liverpool have been holding on since November 9 for news of the left-sided 22-year-old while government officials check to see if there are any objections from the FA or Players ' Union . |
| 24 | Gloucestershire are soldering on without Syd … in the sunday league they made it two wins in a row with a five wicket victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 26 | It 's a taste that seems to be catching on in Japan , replacing a traditional fancy for whale meat , which is now priced well out of the range of most Japanese pockets . |
| 27 | WHEN it comes to home decorating , the colours that find favour in Louisville , Kentucky , could soon be catching on in Rio de Janeiro and Montreal . |
| 28 | I carried Rachel , and Margaret held on to me , and I hoped Tim would be hanging on to Mig , but when we reached the small steamer Tim was missing . |
| 29 | ‘ The way you believe I 'm hanging on to Florian ? ’ she prompted bitterly . |
| 30 | You 'll see , they 'll quarter the soldiers on us , but the king 's officers will be pushing on for London as fast as they can . ’ |