Example sentences of "are [verb] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I thought he would , he deserves it and suddenly the semi-circle is clapping and looking at me : ‘ She 's won , she 's a-a-a won , ’ I hear John shout from half-way up the stalls , and my fellow contestants are slapping me on the back and pushing me to the front of the stage , |
2 | The Chancellor and the Prime Minister are patting themselves on the back for the fact that they have managed to reduce British inflation rates to something like the German levels , but there is a difference between the two . |
3 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
4 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
5 | The car 's manufacturers are taking it on the chin . |
6 | Chubb has sold 47.5m Sun shares to brokers S G Warburg , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs who are placing them on the market . |
7 | Her previous rival , Ann Clwyd , and her small band of supporters , including Brian Sedgemore and Dale Campbell-Savours , are backing her on the grounds of her sex , trapped by their propaganda about the need for a woman in the post . |