Example sentences of "just [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her fury with the diabolical man nearly went into orbit , though , when , once more pinning his dark-eyed look on her , he drawled , ‘ Just hanging on to him while he 's good for the rent , is that it ? ’ and , having made up his mind to that , seemed not to require an answer . |
| 3 | She said the immense pressure she had been under took its toll and at times she was so emotionally and physically exhausted she was ‘ just hanging on by my fingernails ’ . |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No it was just going on about remember , remember that just after climaxing |
| 7 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 8 | I heard it certainly I heard it just going on in the car . |
| 9 | I eased down , just holding on for the silver medal , but it was the end of my Commonwealth Games . |
| 10 | There are some cases where I am just holding on to them and not cashing them in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They 're too busy analysing things here , rather than just getting on with it , ’ says drummer Craig Gill , considering America . |
| 12 | Going for a walk , arranging to meet a friend , or just getting on with some DIY , hobby , or relaxation exercises are all likely to occupy the mind more effectively . |
| 13 | Just getting on with things . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's such a happy little soul just getting on with her life , ’ said Mr Godwin . |
| 15 | For most , just getting on to the list will be the end of the road . |
| 16 | It is the state of being in a rut , just carrying on with something without clear decisions or purpose . |
| 17 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |