Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 2 | Sony has been working on a new Walkman which allows you to watch films as you go around . |
| 3 | According to a recent Hollywood Reporter piece , the Runt is currently labelless but has been working on a project which has been hailed as the first interactive album . |
| 4 | HP has also been getting close to Novell , and has been working on a NetWare implementation for its PA-RISC chip a move ahead of other players . |
| 5 | Over the last few months , SCOTVEC has been working on a series of extra additional assessments for the first batch of general SVQs , that is , for the awards in : |
| 6 | Langbaurgh School has been working on a series of projects relating to India and the fruits of their labours will be on display at the Southlands Centre , Ormesby Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 8 | Oh yes , indeed , a close friend of mine has been working on a history of a very large British company and he 's just seen the proofs produced from the printers from the typescript which was typed in his own office , and apart from the fact that their computers can change the typefaces and improve the whole thing , the work has not had to be rekeyboarded , as they would say , retyped in , at all . |
| 9 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 10 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 11 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 12 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 13 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 14 | A middle-aged man with corn-coloured hair and the bluest eyes Willie had ever seen was sitting on a stool milking one of a handful of cows . |
| 15 | THE FAT Lady Sings are embarking on a lengthy Irish tour next month . |
| 16 | The earliest thing she could remember was sitting on a pink-and-grey rug in the kitchen ; it was a memory that often drifted into her mind , vague and unsummoned , just before she fell asleep . |
| 17 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 18 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 19 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 20 | Having been working on a drama spontaneously , the class ( either as a whole group , or in small groups ) are asked to consider the most important moment in the story so far , and to represent that moment as a still image . |
| 21 | for that , I mean , all you 're doing is going on a ferry |
| 22 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 23 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 24 | I had caught an eider duck that had been sheltering on a lochan and was flying back with it against the wind when I grew tired . |
| 25 | Quinn had been doodling on a pad . |
| 26 | The SNM stated that the relief workers had been riding on a government military lorry ; such lorries were subject to routine attack and they appealed to relief agencies to be " independent " in performing their duties . |
| 27 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 28 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 29 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 30 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |