Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 2 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 3 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 4 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 5 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 6 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 7 | They were going to put on the big show . |
| 8 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 9 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 10 | But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf . |
| 11 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 12 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 13 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 14 | He had n't done well at Sunset , and was planning to pass on the Billabong . |