Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 2 | Mr Takeshita 's immediate aim is to show the Americans that he is as adept in international affairs as in domestic politics , and that they are wasting their time on a boy like Mr Kaifu . |
| 3 | This biggest sister to the popular J/24 has already been proving her pedigree on race courses in Britain and the States |
| 4 | In both cases the choice is between the serious but dull ( when seeing Paul she had been completing her thesis on religious poetry ) and the creative but frivolous ( she collaborates with Bernard on a book about adultery in medieval literature ) . |
| 5 | I 've just realised that as we talk , we are hanging our show on the miners and that there is not one image by a woman . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Worcestershire 's cricketers are keeping their cool on their tour of South Africa . |
| 7 | I 've been keeping my eye on her for a while , but it seems she 'd been returning the favour without my being aware of it . ’ |
| 8 | As Mark has said , colleagues , the C E C are recommending your support on all the motions . |
| 9 | ‘ Is that why you 're hanging your washing on the Siegfried Line ? ’ |
| 10 | Can I just ask why you 're ignoring us lot on the ground floor ? |
| 11 | ‘ You 're having your lamp on the 8th of January . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He wants you , not Sammy or anyone else , and if you wo n't do it , then you 're not just putting Ellen 's money at risk , but you 're putting my commission on the line too , and I might not like that . ’ |
| 13 | If you 're putting your name on a guitar , you want it perfect . |
| 14 | Well , I think you 're you 're putting your finger on the issue that we brought up at the very beginning about this man in the churchyard . |
| 15 | Detainees in Nylstroom said they had been offered their release on the condition that they agreed to become police informers . |
| 16 | The club has criticised the fans for not turning up in bigger numbers to support the club but now they are turning their criticism on the manager . |
| 17 | Whilst it has been argued that such firms need financial and general business aid , if they are to fulfil their potential on a timely basis , little is known of their accounting/financial practices and needs . |
| 18 | The Movement and Dance Liaison Group for G.L. & S.E. are holding their A.G.M. on Friday , 17th December 1982 in the Colson Room , Francis Street , London , S.W.1 at 7.30 p.m . |
| 19 | It is clear that , increasingly , other countries in the Community are supporting our view on CAP reform . |
| 20 | The Ellis float is clearly a profitable one , but across the country fewer and fewer people are buying their milk on the doorstep , even though delivery charges average at just 52p a week . |
| 21 | Colin Hutchinson , consultant to the company for the TOP Programme , has been examining its progress on all three sites . |
| 22 | Local Serbs are strengthening their grip on a narrow corridor along the Sava River between two large Serbian areas . |
| 23 | She was brought back to her mother 's voice , as though enticing her , yet with a slight sneer in it now , saying , ‘ It would give you an opportunity to wear some of those clothes you 've been spending your money on lately . ’ |
| 24 | Yet the Thames Water Authority has been cutting its spending on sewer renewal . |
| 25 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |
| 26 | For now he seems to be biding his time on the sidelines , ready to step in , should the UN 's effort start to crumble . |
| 27 | It was in no way intense , and indeed coming from such a figure it could not help but appear a little maternal ; Mrs Hill did not seem to discover anything odd in her own attitude , and would consult Clara 's opinion without any attempts at subterfuge or bravado ; she would defer to Clara 's position in the class by outrageously open remarks such as " Now , Clara , you 're the only girl likely to remember what I said last week " , or " Well , I suppose I 'm wasting my breath on all but Clara Maugham . " |
| 28 | I 'd expect them to be wasting their time on this foolish nonsense and not me . |
| 29 | An integral part of any theory of personhood concerns inner states of all kinds , and I shall be centring my discussion on indigenous ideas relating to some inner states important to the Chewong , an understanding of which , I shall argue , is necessary in order to understand their interpersonal behaviour and associated values . |
| 30 | Moderator could the convenor tell us why the Board wishes to be discharged its remit on health and healing when it 's been so successful in bringing this to the notice of the whole church ? |