Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 2 | But United are hanging on to ‘ Captain Marvel ’ leaving Derby boss Arthur Cox admitting : ‘ We made an inquiry for Robson , but United turned us down flat and said he was not available . ’ |
| 3 | But the interpretation from dealers and experts is that motorists are hanging on to their ageing cars instead of buying new ones . |
| 4 | It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing . |
| 5 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 6 | They are hanging on by refusing to pay suppliers . |
| 7 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 8 | Kurdish people are hanging on in the northern part of Iraq , desperately in need of support and aid that must come to them before a harsh winter sets in . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 11 | This partly explains why they 've been struggling on for around six years now , but is no excuse in the current climate for them not gaining some long overdue recognition . |
| 12 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 13 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 14 | The boys of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School — four wins in four matches — are catching on to it . |
| 15 | Casual work is growing most rapidly in the service and retail sectors but even traditional manufacturing companies are catching on to the trend . |
| 16 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 17 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 18 | Stuart 's been bleating on about how I changed my name , has n't he ? |
| 19 | The optimism which greeted the ‘ workforce of the future ’ may have faded , but both the union and the company are pressing on with it . |
| 20 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 24 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 25 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 26 | Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound . |
| 27 | And we 're hanging on to each other trying to get on the plane . |
| 28 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 29 | Well yeah if you 're looking on to it but not if you 're actually in it . |
| 30 | ‘ Can you make out what they 're rabbiting on about ? |