Example sentences of "in [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While working on the two biker films and his one sentence in The St Valentine 's Day Massacre , undemanding as they were , Nicholson was also writing another film script for Corman who was once again ahead of the field in latching on to the latest craze sweeping through the world : the children of the post-war baby boom were coming out to play and nothing could stop them now . |
| 2 | There may be more security in hanging on to the old and acquiring something new as well . |
| 3 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 4 | Dalglish , preparing for today 's clash at Coventry , said : ‘ There 's no point in going on about the League table while we are still in August . |
| 5 | The most important thing to remember about juggling is that , if you throw the ball well , the catch will look after itself , except for those one in ten people who have great difficulty in holding on to the ball . |
| 6 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 7 | Our very limited resources are all tied up in getting on with the work . |
| 8 | There was the time , for instance , when they had a love scene in Carry On Up The Khyber in 1968 . |
| 9 | who was the one that was in Carry on up the Khyber cos she was tasty ? |
| 10 | who was the one who played the missionary in Carry on up the Khyber pass and that ? |
| 11 | While Raybestos had succeeded in carrying on despite the intense opposition of two communities , it was unable to survive the actions of its own workers fighting the hazards of asbestos at the point of production . |
| 12 | HEAVEN is my witness that I do not want to be unfair to British Telecom , so I must , with frank and honest gaze , report that I have had several letters saying that I am up the pole in carrying on about the method of charging recently mentioned in this column . |