Example sentences of "[pron] [am/are] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 2 | If this is it , I am sure I am going out on the highest note possible . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , and this is why I want to look at this week at a glance diary , so that you will go away and I want you to fill this in as I 'm filling in on the board , you 'll go away with an idea what a diary , sorry , spit there , ha , erm , of what a diary will look like roughly , so that you know what your diary should look like every week . |
| 4 | It 's as simple as that cos we could send you off to St Andrews or something like that to er to well I 'm just I 'm homing in on the erm on the golf on the basis that I you you 're er you 're representative for a a company that does is involved with golf equipment . |
| 5 | I 've also got a lot of equipment I 'm taking out on the road to be able to write and play , improvise to tapes and so on . |
| 6 | It suggests I 'm falling down on the job . |
| 7 | By the way , your ma will be able to help out at your dairy for a month or two as I 'm cutting down on the number of cows at the manor . |
| 8 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 9 | so I 'm going off on the Mo on the Tuesday still be knackered after the |
| 10 | I 'm going out on the not a special exit but a normal exit tomorrow yeah ? |
| 11 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 12 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
| 13 | hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade … |
| 14 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 15 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 16 | That 's why you 're tied up on the floor and I 'm aiming a gun at you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 18 | it 's not as if there 's anywhere where you can hire a bike I 'm sure you know , but , I suppose you 're going along on the road , across the road I |
| 19 | You 're missing out on the carnival . ’ |
| 20 | Also more roadworks may well affect your journey to the north of Enstone on the A43 , that 's because of some resurfacing work , and if you 're travelling through on the 417 at East Hendred er near the Hare public house , there 's more temporary signals in operation too this evening . |
| 21 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 22 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 23 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 24 | ‘ Aye , Ah 'm booked out on the flight to Lima in the mornin' . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 26 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 27 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 28 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 29 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 30 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |