Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the sorts of contacts that you have when you 're signing on at the Employment Benefits Office , when you 're going to a job interview erm and often these are very negative because the experience of signing on is n't a very pleasant experience at all ; most job interviews , unfortunately , end with a rejection erm so a lot of these non-routine contacts were quite negatives ones for people . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 3 | Then then there 's er what 's the name what 's the woman they 're working on at the minute this lot the |
| 4 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 5 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 6 | Right , erh what I 'd like to do then is er I say could you just introduce yourself or what you 're working on at the moment where you work and then the sort of presentations that you make er and then give us one of your objectives so that by the time we 've got right round the room we 'll er hopefully have everybody . |
| 7 | Still , I suppose you would have to develop a certain detachment , otherwise you 'd never be able to carry on with what you 're working on at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 9 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 10 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 11 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 12 | Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time . |
| 13 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 14 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 15 | Yet conflict may be handled more effectively if what is going on within is taken into account as well as what is going on at the surface . |
| 16 | One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment . |
| 17 | 1 What is going on at the beginning of the poem ? 2 What do you think has happened before the poem begins ? 3 Do you think the boys are afraid ? |
| 18 | I do not believe in using the deep trance state in any form of therapy as it involves hypnoamnesia , a state in which the patient will neither be aware of what is going on at the time nor able to recall it afterwards . |
| 19 | The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization . |
| 20 | So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ? |
| 21 | ‘ And what if you live on the ground floor and you look up at what 's going on at the top ? |
| 22 | ‘ She 's not very forthcoming always about what 's going on at the back of her mind , ’ he said after a time in a soft voice to Jo-Ann , ‘ but I can generally tell something about it from the way she moves her toes . |
| 23 | No it 's erm all the conversation that 's going on at the minute . |
| 24 | So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please . |
| 25 | ‘ Connected with what 's going on at the moment ? ’ |
| 26 | That 's the sort of thing that 's going on at the moment . |
| 27 | Er , er , er , government of what 's going on at the moment |
| 28 | As you know doubt are aware of the importance that it is to us in that area of the and the current enquiry that 's going on at the moment . |
| 29 | what 's going on at the moment and where I am with it |
| 30 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |