Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have , they will be drawing back on most things . |
| 2 | I 'll be catching up on the progress of our women in management . |
| 3 | ‘ I might be inching up on it , might n't I ? ’ |
| 4 | We tried to keep the scaffolders er occupied , doing their scaffolding bit accurate but safe everybody 's gon na be climbing down on that . |
| 5 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |
| 6 | Bullies like to be Number One and the thought that someone else could be muscling in on his top-spot got Herod in a bit of a strop . |
| 7 | So , you 'll be ending up on the breadline worse than ever |
| 8 | Most commentators , pace Mr Damant , are likely to think that there is a good deal too much fudging going on and that the ASB ought to be cracking down on it . |
| 9 | ‘ One look from those eyes when someone had displeased him and we 'd all be walking around on eggshells . |
| 10 | I 'm sure he would n't want to seem to be walking out on his friends in a nasty situation . ’ |
| 11 | Men should be walking about on Earth in a state of intoxication and delight , yet here we are amid these real riches and most people are miserable and peevish . |
| 12 | After the previous evening , too many conflicting emotions seemed to be crowding in on her , and she was n't sure she knew how to deal with them , or indeed , she thought , stepping out of her jogging pants and T-shirt to reveal the figure-hugging jade-green swimsuit beneath , whether there was anything to deal with , other than her own imagination . |
| 13 | And Newton 's third law says , that your hand must be pushing up on it . |
| 14 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 15 | Hereford will be looking back on their game at Crewe in anger . |
| 16 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 17 | I talked them into it because at first they were scared , one because they thought they 'd get docked for it — but they said we could have half a day off for it and not get docked — and also because they thought Ros and Maureen were going to be looking down on them , " Oh , you 're only young girls ' , things like that . |
| 18 | Your partner should be lying down on his or her back with a cushion or rolled up towel under the knees to prevent any strain in the lumbar region . |
| 19 | She wo n't be making midnight phone calls , she wo n't be turning up on his doorstep in the small hours . |
| 20 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 21 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
| 22 | Registration forms for the Bookseller 's Association Conference 1993 will be going out on 1st February , and the BA is aiming to make Torquay , Monday 26th to Wednesday 28th April , one of its best and most cost effective events . |
| 23 | And the timetable for that will be going out on the , the noticeboard some time this afternoon . |
| 24 | I 'm not , you 're not , these days the Blessed Mother , she came back , she 'd be going down on guys right , left and centre . |
| 25 | Supposed to be going down on weekend of fifteenth but when she phones on Thursday I 'm going to tell her to come during the week . |
| 26 | I wo n't be going back on no jigs , will I ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I presume I 'll be doubling up on both parts , ’ O'Hara said . |
| 28 | to be getting back on her feet alright . |
| 29 | ‘ She 'd be nosin' in on us , ’ said Carrie . |
| 30 | Mr Colin Walker , a senior manager at Autotype International , said he would be reporting back on possible business links after the summer visit . |