Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still enough money and enough going on for a ‘ hot ’ property like Nicholson to walk in and begin making fortunes immediately . |
| 2 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 3 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 4 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 5 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 6 | It was Gazzer , still clinging on like a monkey and kicking out at Simon , who was dragging him back . |
| 7 | Toddlers often rose on their toes , held their legs stiffly , and rocked back and forth holding on to a piece of furniture or onto the parent . |
| 8 | Occasionally they walk upright along a branch , grasping it with their toes but always holding on to a branch above their heads with their hands . |
| 9 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 10 | I do n't believe that you have any idea of what 's really going on in a country or culture until you live there . |
| 11 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 12 | This programme is now moving on to a consideration of the functions of government departments themselves , with proposals to privatise large swathes of government activities , leaving a small , central policy-making core in Whitehall . |
| 13 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |