Example sentences of "we [be] [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 2 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 3 | We 're moving to Shanghai with mixed feelings , as we 've heard we 'll be staying in the Peace Hotel , in the noisy centre of the city , but it 's nice to feel now that we are moving on to the home stretch . |
| 4 | In Britain in nineteen ninety three we are hanging on to the remains of our welfare state by our fingertips . |
| 5 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 6 | ‘ We are carrying on with the wedding as planned . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , we 're staying on at the end of this trip to do the world cruise . ’ |
| 8 | It 's all to do with GCSE coursework and see how we 're getting on during the two weeks and we get experience for us when we leave school and go to work . |
| 9 | Johnson , just debating , we 're getting on to the whole idea of Johnson 's world and the link though it worked out the same I 'd say . |
| 10 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 11 | And the mono thing worked ; we found it was a format we could really use well , so for the time being we 're carrying on down the path . |
| 12 | It 's just something which is so big , that for the problem we 're working on at the moment , you 'd be there forever , or you 'd be there from here to the moon or something . |
| 13 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 14 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 15 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |