Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on it " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are living on it . |
| 2 | Librarians have expertise to offer here and teachers are capitalising on it , often incorporating these elements in their lesson plans . |
| 3 | Well it 's not you 're picking on it 's Michael or la last night it was Thomas . |
| 4 | Could do with probably somebody who knows what they 're doing on it . |
| 5 | GUIL : Unless they 're counting on it . |
| 6 | We 're relying on it to replace them . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're standing on it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're standing on it . ’ |
| 9 | Now you 're sitting on it . |
| 10 | Well not if you 're sitting on it . |
| 11 | They 're working on it , but there are about 50,000 kilometres of roads in all and I was told that fully half of them need to be torn up and rebuilt from scratch . |
| 12 | But we 're working on it ! ’ |
| 13 | But we 're working on it , so it should be out in the not too distant future . ’ |
| 14 | They 're working on it fast as they can , but , hell , Zack , twenty-five thousand stones , all good , all untraceable — that takes a bit — ‘ |
| 15 | ( But we 're working on it . ) |
| 16 | Just describing the general principles and answering specific questions with ‘ we 're working on it ’ would n't have been good enough . ’ |
| 17 | It would n't be very large , but anything large or anything on a large square well if they 're working on it , once they put their bollards up . |
| 18 | Note the video type controls that allow you to view the animation as you 're working on it . |
| 19 | We 're working on it . ’ |
| 20 | So I said well I hope you 're working on it |
| 21 | So you 're working on it some stage as yet ? |
| 22 | One thing 's for sure , they 're working on it . |
| 23 | They 're concentrating on it a bit now , are n't they . |
| 24 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 25 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 26 | I think the erm water pump is on it 's way out , that 's normally what it means , the radiator the carbons are wearing on it |
| 27 | September sunshine had been shining on it ever since Leyton . |
| 28 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 29 | Simon Williams in NME coined a telling phrase when he commented : ‘ The Wedding Present are merely treading water when they should be walking on it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In Rome , I 'll be going out to win but I 'm looking on it first and foremost as the chance to get the feel of the hurdles again . ’ |