Example sentences of "they be [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 They are hemmed in on the east by the Grand Junction Canal which still flourishes on the north by the straight alignment of the shortened Oxford Canal on the west by the former Great Central Railway line constructed in 1896 and on the south by the embankment of the old Daventry to Leamington railway .
2 ‘ But that means they are missing out on the communication and the enjoyment of talking and shopping .
3 They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds .
4 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 .
5 Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think .
6 They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror .
7 They 're coming in on the Wednesday are n't they ?
8 Even though they 're coming out on the inside .
9 Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there
10 They were flapping round on the
11 They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use .
12 Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time .
13 and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse …
14 Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third .
15 There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way .
16 They were sitting out on the terrace on the low wall of which stood , in pairs , stone figures from classical mythology of a rather embarrassing kind .
17 They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix .
18 In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham .
19 They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank .
20 But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead .
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