Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete . |
| 2 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 3 | It does n't know for certain , so it simply doubles whatever free space it thinks is left — after all the software is n't psychic and ca n't know what files are going to wind up on the hard disk . |
| 4 | " I 'm going to walk out on the street , " Braden said . |
| 5 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |
| 6 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 7 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 8 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 9 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 10 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 11 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 12 | Indeed , the business is so popular that professional pornography producers are trying to get in on the action with their own ‘ amateur ’ videos . |
| 13 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 14 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 15 | The US and Japan pretty much have the microprocessor design business to themselves , but now it looks as if Taiwan 's government-backed Computer & Communication Research Laboratories is trying to get in on the act . |
| 16 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 18 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 19 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 20 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 21 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 22 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 23 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 24 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 25 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 26 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |