Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 3 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 4 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 5 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 6 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 7 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 8 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 9 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 10 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 11 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 12 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 13 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 14 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 15 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 16 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 17 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 18 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 19 | it 's not as if there 's anywhere where you can hire a bike I 'm sure you know , but , I suppose you 're going along on the road , across the road I |
| 20 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 21 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 22 | Its stopped snowing here but the temperature is still minus three and we 're going out on the slopes now to join the Gloucester slalom ski-racing team |
| 23 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 24 | The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss . |
| 25 | But perhaps when you 're lying down on the floor and tied up by little people you can hardly see and do n't believe in , that 's not the best time to start communicating . |
| 26 | Also more roadworks may well affect your journey to the north of Enstone on the A43 , that 's because of some resurfacing work , and if you 're travelling through on the 417 at East Hendred er near the Hare public house , there 's more temporary signals in operation too this evening . |
| 27 | And the Monday especially if we 're travelling back on the Monday |
| 28 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 29 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 30 | They 're coming in on the Wednesday are n't they ? |