Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 2 | Tonks said : ‘ We are looking at the situation on a day-to-day basis . |
| 3 | we 're going to the clinic on Monday I know I forgot when I was there last week , so do n't worry she wo n't die for lack of vitamins . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose we 're going to the mainland on another wild-goose chase ? ’ |
| 5 | If you 're camping in the wilderness on your own , do n't let imagination get the better of you . |
| 6 | 5.00 pm and we 're coming to the finish on hold No. 1 . |
| 7 | I do n't know how many are going to the funeral on Wednesday morning , it 's ten o'clock at Sacred Heart . |
| 8 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 9 | Imagine you are lying in the sunshine on a warm beach in Tahiti . |
| 10 | I think I may now have seen how to proceed in a paper I 'm writing at the moment on unconscious intention . |
| 11 | I 'm going across the board on this one . |
| 12 | I 'm going to the pub on Saturday ! |
| 13 | no if I 'm going to the pub on Saturday and I 'm going to the Galleria on |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm going to the opera on Wednesday , ’ the girl repeated . |
| 15 | no if I 'm going to the pub on Saturday and I 'm going to the Galleria on |
| 16 | I 'm coming by yesterday , and he goes oh by the way I 'm coming to the cinema on Saturday with you , I said , you what ! |
| 17 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 18 | We are standing outside the tower on the ledge . |
| 19 | WE 'RE PROUD THAT THE BEST CIVIL ENGINEERING BRAINS IN BRITAIN ARE WORKING ACROSS THE CHANNEL ON THE PROJECT OF THE CENTURY |
| 20 | And , of course , we are arranging to brief Treasury people , who will automatically be opposed to giving away public money ; and we are working with the company on a memorandum on what assistance to Huerter would do to Barton , with a two-page bullet-point summary . |