Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 3 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 4 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 5 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 6 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 7 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 8 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 9 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 10 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 11 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 15 | The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 18 | Even though they 're coming out on the inside . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You 're missing out on the carnival . ’ |
| 21 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 22 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 23 | The Soviet Army , has also been getting in on the act . |
| 24 | Even British farmers have been getting in on the act , attracted by the lure of cheap agricultural land at prices half those on our side of the Channel . |
| 25 | Dublin 's notorious ticket touts have also been getting in on the act through Northern front men knowing there will be a market for the tickets at ten times the outlay . |
| 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 | Yeah you 're going on as if , you started off on the fact that you do n't think we 've got any fear of them cos their kids are running round on the street and now all of sudden you say we have because they 've got nuclear weapons you say . |
| 29 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 30 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |