Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm sorry , I 'm moving on to the next paper . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 5 | " And now , if you 'll excuse me , I 'm going on to the worst problem of the lot — Willis 's financial position … |
| 6 | About the papers in the portmanteau and Molly and how I 'm going on to the monastery next . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm going on to the monastery . |
| 8 | I 'm driving on to the train 's roar beat , |
| 9 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 10 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 11 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 12 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 13 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pack some clothes , and whatever you need to finish the illustrations you 're working on at the moment , then we 'll leave . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 20 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 21 | Erm , the book here is the one that she 's working on at the moment . |
| 22 | She 's already provided the couple with a tape of tribal fertility dances to ‘ release endorphins in the pelvic region ’ and before long she 's going on about the healing properties of dolphins . |
| 23 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 24 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 25 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 26 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 27 | You talk about going and — all I was afraid she was going to do — she was coming on to the road so she would run into me ! |
| 28 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |
| 29 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 30 | We are moving on with the medical services . |