Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter rested there until his return , during which time Clanny and Stephenson were working on their own versions of a safe lamp . |
| 2 | It was late in the morning , and Lucy was sitting on her fold-down bed with the curtains still drawn when Josie looked in . |
| 3 | Gordon is working on his next project , a book about the Lakes , and his publishers , keen to capitalise on his recent success , have given him very little time to complete it . |
| 4 | Samsung is working on its own version of the PA-RISC that will add high-speed memory technology to the CPU logic on the same silicon . |
| 5 | Airdrie are banking on their own Mark Hateley to dump Lanarkshire derby rivals Motherwell deep into relegation trouble . |
| 6 | WHAT is the interest rate that Birmingham Midshires is offering on its Super Discount mortgage : A , 9.24 per cent . |
| 7 | In any event , Cherwell felt , it would be politically unwise to suspend work on full employment , given the public interest and the fact that Beveridge was working on his own report . |
| 8 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |
| 9 | Captain Rosten was acting on my direct orders . |
| 10 | Bob was circling on his own horse , waiting for me . |
| 11 | In less than half an hour they were all airborne and Rob was flying on his seventeenth raid over occupied Europe . |
| 12 | In this sense , Burton was drawing on something profound and perhaps dangerous in himself . |
| 13 | Johnny arrived the following evening as Cassie was working on her usual classroom preparation in the little attic room . |
| 14 | A police officer who was at the scene of the crash said , ‘ Mrs Gallagher was travelling on her own side when struck by a vehicle coming from the opposite direction on her side of the road . ’ |
| 15 | Pa is standing on my blue nursery stool . |
| 16 | Sequent is working on its own implementation , but it wo n't comment on any release plans . |