Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive . |
| 3 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 4 | Will he say that he knew what was going on at Luigi 's ? |
| 5 | He could have said , ’ Yes , I knew what was going on at Luigi 's restaurant . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd been hearing things , Denis had said , and he wanted to know what was going on at Rafferty 's . |
| 7 | Tell me , did the great galactic public ever find out what was going on on Checkley 's World ? ’ |
| 8 | Therese , conscious , as was everyone else , of a row of gargantuan proportions going on in Gesner 's dressing room , was blithely uncaring . |
| 9 | As Lewis watched him walk sway up to Hamilton Road , he wondered , as he 'd so often wondered , what exactly Morse was thinking ; wondered about what was going on in Morse 's mind at that very moment ; the reading of the clues , those clues to which no one else could see the answers ; those glimpses of motive that no one else could ever have suspected ; those answers to the sort of questions that no one else had even begun to ask … |
| 10 | Something similar has been going on in Turner 's music . |
| 11 | The first example above , for instance , implies that Dickens took special care not to represent Chancery in a particular way , which is something we can never know ( we can not know what was going on in Dickens 's head ) . |
| 12 | ‘ So I see , ’ Alyssia replied in a stiff voice , wondering what was going on in Piers 's head at this masquerade . |
| 13 | But this suggests simply that a kind of unconscious holding operation is going on among psychology 's more powerful subjects . |
| 14 | No one understood what was going on inside Ramanujan 's . |
| 15 | But what was going on inside Jennifer 's mind ? |
| 16 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 17 | Sung prostrated himself , holding on to Bergson 's feet . |
| 18 | He jumped to his feet , still holding on to Gilbert 's wrist , as a second strike hit the building . |
| 19 | He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas . |
| 20 | Moving on to Zimbabwe 's admission to Test ranks , one can only congratulate them and wish them well , while inevitably questioning their prospects in that kind of company . |
| 21 | As he limped out , his good arm clinging on to Victoria 's shapely waist , Shelley called after them , ‘ And mind the roundabout ! |
| 22 | Whooshing on about David 's beauty and elegance on the top layer , she carves her and her disciples up a treat underneath . |
| 23 | Univel has recently signed some 25 distributors around the world to handle UnixWare ( UX No 398 ) by simply piggybacking on to Novell 's base and expanding on their existing Novell contracts . |
| 24 | Following on from Morrissey 's terse communication of last week , we , the NME , will now share with you our secret weapon . |
| 25 | It was one of revolution and civil war , following on from Russia 's collapse during the First World War . |
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