Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual DNA molecules I received from my parents are not passed to my children : replicas of them are passed on . |
| 2 | Having reluctantly cleared me of the charge of indulging in orgies with my entire sales force , you seem to have got it into your head that Lexy and I are carrying on some kind of affair . |
| 3 | I dust down another box and put it on top of the one I am perching on , to bring it up to the height of a normal chair . |
| 4 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 5 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 6 | So I seek the authority of Jesus ; and I am led on by him to see the authority of the Bible . |
| 7 | To say " The chair I am sitting on actually exists " is similarly uninformative , since the chair I am sitting on already implies that a chair is there . |
| 8 | To say " The chair I am sitting on actually exists " is similarly uninformative , since the chair I am sitting on already implies that a chair is there . |
| 9 | ‘ I would rather carry the model I am working on , in case it gets injured , ’ he said reasonably . |
| 10 | Now I am twittering on about buying a new workshop , equipping it with this or that kind of planer/thicknesser , getting this or that panel saw . |
| 11 | But I am running on too fast . |
| 12 | That is what I am concentrating on now , ’ he said . |
| 13 | She glanced at Sarah and said impulsively , ‘ Here I am going on , and it 's even more exciting for you , is n't it , Sar ? |
| 14 | Well if I was his manager , what would I be working on ? |
| 15 | My subject is still colour changer but this month I 'm moving on to its use in double bed knitting , in particular for double jacquard which is easier than you may think . |
| 16 | Yes I do I 'm moving on I 've got to find my way to somewhere else now . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , I 'm moving on to the next paper . |
| 18 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 19 | ‘ Not tonight , Father , I 'm staying on to do some work . |
| 20 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 21 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 22 | Now I 'm looking on to it thinking , you know , but they 're so , do you think , the upper sixth are n't like that at all though are they ? |
| 23 | I have to say , that the the year wo I that I 'm reporting on now , nineteen ninety , ninety-one was actually better than we had originally planned and expected , and in fact , that we did eliminate the deficit in that year . |
| 24 | But I 'm getting on and who cares what I think ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm getting on to Social Services . |
| 26 | can sail into a beautiful old age with enthusiasm for hobbies , taking up new interests of all sorts and I 've taken up skiing after the age of fifty and I 'm , I feel I 'm getting on well with it and this fresh air and and you know , getting out and finding who you really are after , you know , looking after children is is a wonderful thing ! |
| 27 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 28 | I 'm getting on with it . |
| 29 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 30 | Perhaps that 's old fashioned but then I 'm getting on in years . ’ |