Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cyclists should take particular care entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 2 | Cyclists should take particular care when entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 3 | I worked the committee hard and fast , and overtime too , cutting down on the lunch break and carrying on late in the afternoon . |
| 4 | Dick Francis was sidelined through injury , and Bryan Marshall , who rode the horse in the King George and the Mildmay , informed Cazalet that on both occasions his mount had seemed to falter halfway through the race , before finding his second wind and running on again . |
| 5 | Prince Charles is due to visit two of the four main bases used by the 2,500 British troops serving as peacekeepers with the United Nations Protection Force , arriving this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travelling on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt , near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia . |
| 6 | Marjorie and Bill were left to cope with their own personal loss while putting on a brave face for each other . |
| 7 | He drank his own tea while getting on with his work , work that demanded care and concentration . |
| 8 | Her mother , supported by two Christian Science practitioners , was in another room ‘ knowing the truth ’ and trying to reconcile her hysteria with Mary Baker Eddy 's teaching that passing on is a belief of moral mind . |
| 9 | Removing stale , moist air from inside the house may be brought about deliberately — by opening a window or switching on an extractor fan — or may occur fortuitously — air passing up chimney flues , for example , or finding its own way out through one or two small gaps in the house structure . |
| 10 | Your plan that taking on Suzi as the dancer would avoid the Gesner problem . ’ |
| 11 | Back at base , Stirling had every intention of staying out in the desert and carrying on his raiding operations . |
| 12 | Rather hoary for a start-up , Mentalix has been through a couple of iterations beginning as a consultant and going on to develop scanner interfaces for the old Apollo workstation . |
| 13 | I fussed about , preparing myself , washing , combing my hair and putting on my borrowed finery . |
| 14 | The beauty of that trail is that you have the thrill of walking beneath the railway viaduct and carrying on up alongside the Allt Chonoghlais into Coire a' Ghabhalach , the mirror eastern corrie of the one gained by the Bridge of Orchy route . |
| 15 | Anyway , by the time Maureen went on her annual holiday , Biggles was feeding himself a bit and coming on well , so I took over . |
| 16 | Of the manner of making clergy , very early texts speak of prayer and laying on of hands , by which was conferred a charismatic gift appropriate to the office ( 2 Tim . |
| 17 | The reason for the preserving and passing on of the traditions in this way was that they were used primarily by the early Church in its teaching of the community . |
| 18 | ‘ When they had that first trouble , Anna finding out about the prince and carrying on as if it were the end of the world , Constanza must have been about five or six ; she does n't even remember ; Mena does , every minute of it . |
| 19 | Even if you are a very small business or taking on domestic staff you should write a job specification , although you may prefer to make it a more informal list of everything the job entails . |
| 20 | I found myself opening the batting and going on as change bowler with my medium pace . |
| 21 | So you had ten minutes ' free time , a type of reward , if you like , for paying attention and getting on with it . |
| 22 | A rash then became visible over the whole of the patient 's body and extending on to her limbs ; this was an erythema and not a purpura . |
| 23 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 24 | It is strange to me that such an obviously deep and , in my opinion , very moving , impressive poem can revolve round a mechanical , modern and brash object and almost devalue nature while putting on the personal and human mask that it does . |
| 25 | Henry Cecil 's colt proved himself a thorough stayer when running on strongly at the end of the 1 ¾ miles of the St Leger on rain-softened ground at Ayr , but the Champion is run over half a mile less . |
| 26 | They got down awkwardly , hanging on to the edge of the sill and dropping on to the road . |
| 27 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 28 | By the end of the programme Gary was much happier , showing much more pro-social behaviour and getting on a good deal better with his parents . |
| 29 | I was a little foolish in earlier years before the electric light , trying to read and sew by the light of an oil lamp and pressing on when I should have stopped and rested my eyes . |
| 30 | Hours spent on each site during the day or part of a day if working on more than one site . |