Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | So I seek the authority of Jesus ; and I am led on by him to see the authority of the Bible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry , I 'm moving on to the next paper . |
| 7 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 8 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | I 'm getting on with it . |
| 11 | I phoned up this week just to say I 'm getting on with it and they sort of like she said she 'd |
| 12 | Well tough he 's not getting my , he 's not getting the ensuite room , I can tell you If I if I have got three lodgers and I 'm getting on with them and they 're they 're paying me regularly for the sake of an extra twenty pounds or whatever and the annoyance from Tony coming in at ten a or there abouts and then sitting there like a stuffed frock waiting for me to leap about and put food on a plate and microwave it not doing it , Brenda ! |
| 13 | They , they asked that it be done on a Friday and a Saturday and that they appeared on Thursday with it , erm , I 'm getting on with it . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm getting on to Social Services . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Perhaps that 's old fashioned but then I 'm getting on in years . ’ |
| 17 | Only as we 've lost the last one , I 'm hanging on to , it 's hanging in my wardrobe , I 'm not making a third one |
| 18 | ‘ The way you believe I 'm hanging on to Florian ? ’ she prompted bitterly . |
| 19 | I 'm following on from that . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I 'm coming on to that . |
| 21 | But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time . |
| 23 | " And now , if you 'll excuse me , I 'm going on to the worst problem of the lot — Willis 's financial position … |
| 24 | About the papers in the portmanteau and Molly and how I 'm going on to the monastery next . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm going on to the monastery . |
| 26 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 27 | But they do n't speak any English , I do n't speak any Arabic , so I 'm gesturing away about the bar-tailed lark and not being able to go into the forbidden zone , and somehow or other the leader understands what I 'm going on about and makes me understand that because they 're nomads they do n't have to follow international boundaries . |
| 28 | If you do it first , you 're gon na really understand what I 'm going on about . |
| 29 | The trouble is that it I know , I say I 'm going on about have n't got a copper and everything , then they walk up to the bar and pull out a great wad of notes |
| 30 | I 'm driving on to the train 's roar beat , |