Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 2 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 3 | A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers has been working on the inquiry . |
| 4 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 5 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 6 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 7 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 8 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 9 | It 's thought around 70 travellers have been living on the site for several weeks . |
| 10 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 11 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 12 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |