Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 2 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 3 | As a result , you find yourself hanging on to every word and gesture . |
| 4 | The policeman was hanging on to the door and obviously enjoying the ride . |
| 5 | Laboriously carved out of rock and earth , their buildings are built in incredible terraces , one above the other , hanging on to the cliffs or nestled below them . |
| 6 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 7 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 8 | Yet it was so , for when we docked at Rangoon next morning civil evacuation had been ordered , to be completed within forty-eight hours , and the wharves were black with excited refugees , who insisted on crowding on to the boat before we could get off . |
| 9 | Clytemnestra agreed vociferously , leaping on to a stool and screeching hysterically at sight of her lead . |
| 10 | At bottom then there was some democratic basis for the Unionist case , for the government was pressing on with a reform that they knew was not backed by the electorate . |
| 11 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 12 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton used as his studio and bedroom an airy ground-floor room with french windows opening on to a balcony that overlooked the large garden . |
| 13 | James Lambert turned too , but towards the doors opening on to the yard and air . |
| 14 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 15 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Not quite , ’ he said , sinking on to the sofa and casually crossing one leg , raking his fingers through his hair . |
| 18 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 19 | The legendary Jon the Postman , ( the ultimate fan of seventies punk who achieved minor fame by clambering on to the stage and reciting ‘ Louie Louie ’ at the finish of every Buzzcocks gig ) : ‘ The Smiths are a great rock 'n' roll band . |
| 20 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 21 | Marketing is the one function of management which has to be more concerned with what is going on outside the organization than with what is happening internally . |
| 22 | And er then I would see the two two or three cleaners coming out and going on to the coach and cleaning them , and I would say to them , What are they for ? |
| 23 | On Monday evening booksellers can meet author Nigel Williams ( Faber ) , and afterwards any delegate not otherwise engaged is invited to join BA president John Hitchin for a conference first , a President 's Personal Spring Supper at Cockington Court , before going on to the David & Charles Disco . |
| 24 | Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen . |
| 25 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 26 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 27 | The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . . |
| 28 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |
| 29 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 30 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |