Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Haldane Report ( 1918 ) on the machinery of central government , which has since dominated thinking on the design of central government , examined a number of these criteria and recommended the distribution of government work on the basis of functions performed . |
| 2 | At le weekend some Brownies might play le football and some may be lucky enough to go sailing on un yacht . |
| 3 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 5 | Look out for — Approved , Commended or Highly Commended appearing on our signs . |
| 6 | The level at which this is pitched and the textual content naturally varies depending on the course and the contexts range widely : one day we might focus on the language of a rape victim in Panjabi ( which we roleplayed in Bedford Police Station ) , the next a simulated interview in Arabic on child abuse , and the next a Vietnamese patient explaining her persistent earache to the doctor , a symptom masking the deeper one , i.e. the trauma of being a refugee . |
| 7 | If I interpreted it correctly — ‘ Nothing is definite , you must interpret the words ’ , Liese said — I had only to keep lying on my bed of North Shore nails for it to turn ultimately into a pillow of foam . |
| 8 | Predictably , where such policies have merely involved adding on a vocational junior secondary top to a general primary base u in Ghana and Nigeria , there has been little overt reaction to the proposals . |
| 9 | The relative importance of , say , a lapse in hygiene and a breach of the Financial Services Act will obviously vary depending on whether you 're a food manufacturer or a stockbroker . |
| 10 | You 'd only get snoring on it ! |
| 11 | Races could only get going on a majority vote of the Student Union , and then only if it was quorate . |
| 12 | For example in hot dry weather , carelessly attended picnic fires and inadequate disposal of lighted cigarette ends can start a forest fire , although ignition can occur spontaneously from the heat produced by sun shining through glass carelessly left lying on the ground especially near dry shrubland and trees . |
| 13 | But we , we 'd better practise sitting on the floor for stories , so that you 're ready for nursery when you go |
| 14 | As a potential breadwinner , you 'd better start concentrating on your career , and not — ’ |
| 15 | Embarrassing for all concerned although I suppose we can always rip out Chapter 1 , daringly entitled Leaving on a Jet Plane . |
| 16 | In the config.sys file you will find many of the commands that need to be individually altered depending on the programs you are running . |
| 17 | In my experience the best setting for groups or individuals is a comfortably furnished room , not too reverberant , with plain , unobtrusive decor and a choice of armchairs and upright chairs which are easily shifted depending on the particular grouping needed for the activity ( one-to-one discussion , four grouped round a table , two rows facing each other , a circle and so on ) . |
| 18 | In the face of potential starvation , honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa , but they learn to avoid being clubbed . |
| 19 | ‘ I can not believe that you are the kind of man who can just stop working on something , leaving it half-finished like this . ’ |
| 20 | However , the drafter should generally avoid relying on the interpretation given to a word or term in a previous decided case . |
| 21 | She soon started appearing on such television classics as Doctor Who and Dixon of Dock Green . |
| 22 | If there is just one curve at the top of the incline and the leading and trailing wheels thus continue travelling on the same rail tracks , as the tank comes up over the curve it will tilt forward . |
| 23 | They are generally found living on fish body tissues but merely for attachment purposes , actually filter-feeding on surrounding debris and organic matter . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , just keep listening on the distress frequency , Harrison , 090 or near enough . |
| 25 | CCG are recruiting about 70 staff to run the site , and some have already started working on site security and other services during the mobilisation phase . |
| 26 | Defence Secretary Rifkind is reported to be grateful for support from the fourteen military minded Conservatives whose confidential letter to the Prime Minister was somehow left lying on a copying machine for a Labour researcher to find , but he is irritated by the leak , an insider murmurs that Malcolm 's notching up black marks for the future . |
| 27 | Rex Reed , a writer for the New York Times saw Nicholson when he had just finished making On A Clear Day and thought that Jack was starting to make establishment noises , cleaning up his image , shaving his stubble and ditching the sandals and hippie clothes . |
| 28 | Neither partner could fail to be aware of the interest in their company which , more than once , threatened to result in a book chronicling their success , especially as Laura had just finished working on the first Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating . |
| 29 | He had already begun publishing on electromagnetism , and in a paper of 1847 he suggested an analogy between an incompressible solid and a magnetic field . |
| 30 | Well , they were n't actually outrageous , Tod 's flares , nothing like the twin-ballgown effect we would soon start seeing on the street . |