Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 2 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 3 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 4 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 5 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 10 | The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss . |
| 11 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If you 're staying elsewhere on the island you can join the wildlife walks for a day or more . |
| 14 | And the Monday especially if we 're travelling back on the Monday |
| 15 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 16 | They 're coming in on the Wednesday are n't they ? |
| 17 | Even though they 're coming out on the inside . |
| 18 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |
| 19 | All right , but you 're sitting there on the nursery provision for under five 's working party , you chaired that committee meeting yesterday . |
| 20 | but they 're not in control of their body , so you must watch them , talk to them and if , if you can walk along the road with them , talking to them now the , there is the other type where you get the aura , they know they 're going to have a fit , so if somebody at your work place comes along and says to you I 'm gon na have a fit in five minutes , I mean do n't laugh at them and think ha ha , take them to a room where they 're safe and this applies to all epileptic fits , they 've got to be safe , so you 're going to clear a room of any danger , they 're laying down on the floor theirself because they 've got time they know they 're going to have this fit , if they 've got something to put in their mouth alright they will put it in their mouths themselves and once again they 've got five minutes to do it in and then that person will go through their fit , you stay with them , you comply by their wishes , if they say to you right , well just leave me when I come round I , do n't touch me I 'll be alright , they know , so you , you comply by their wish wishes , erm but only go in when you feel it is necessary , if they say right , erm I , I should regain consciousness in ten minutes and they have n't , you 're there , you stay there in case make sure they 're safe , there 's nothing there that can hurt them , then they 'll probably get up at the end of the fit and erm go into a room for a rest and say thank you very much and er , erm that 's it . |
| 21 | You 're missing out on the carnival . ’ |
| 22 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn 's books , for example , are selling well on the street stalls ; so are the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and the poet Osip Mandelstam . |
| 23 | Slime algae should be removed as it may actually grow over the encrusting species which , of course , are growing directly on the substrate , to their obvious detriment . |
| 24 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 25 | My preference when fish are feeding hard on the bottom is for the fixed paternoster which , due to the lead being at the extreme end of the line , casts further and more accurately than any other set-up . |
| 26 | But they , the Conservatives are cutting down on the health service and everything else and the schools |
| 27 | I hope all local areas will think about acquiring a stock of good movement photographs of local people which could be sent to the press in support of a feature — many local papers are cutting back on the expense of sending photographers out to events but are delighted to use suitable contributions . |
| 28 | A trio of local drivers are closing in on the Autoquip North Western Rally title as the final four rounds in the series are approached . |
| 29 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 30 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |