Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's financing on cars |
| 2 | she 's going on holiday in January |
| 3 | She 's going on fumes . |
| 4 | Well er , I think probably , I mean i so , this lady came on Friday and she 's coming on Friday of this week to collect it or collect the tapes |
| 5 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 6 | She is surviving on family credit and before the actor stepped in had no idea how she would buy Christmas presents for her sons . |
| 7 | Tragically , her father 's suicide coincides with the shattering discovery that her cousin Charles ' interest in marrying her is based on greed — not love . |
| 8 | I pointed out , for instance , that a lot of the criticism of her is founded on jealousy . |
| 9 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 10 | Well , Matthew Fort , Esquire 's Food Editor , will be able to show you how it 's done on July 23 . |
| 11 | It 's run on NBC 's cable channel and should air on the Public Broadcasting System at some ungodly hour in the morning . |
| 12 | Dad look it 's fizzing on top , look ! |
| 13 | It 's based on Windows 3.0 and the first implementation supports the Informix relational database running on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , NCR Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 , IBM Corp RS/6000 and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix servers . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It 's based on demand . |
| 15 | Our relationship does n't have to do with a cause , Father Tom ; it 's based on fear and guilt and power — like all true relationships . |
| 16 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 17 | It 's wasted on Nigel . |
| 18 | Police driver describes how fast the car is going , how it 's driving on pavements . |
| 19 | so we want to do is look at that one and we see that it 's keeping on track and er it 's doing the things that we actually want to do |
| 20 | just to see it 's keeping on tract and |
| 21 | For many it 's relying on others to speak up for them . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's coming on dark after all , ’ Peg agreed . |
| 23 | And I think it 's both important for N C V O itself , to ensure that it 's working on issues , equal opportunities issues that affect itself , and that it 's helping the sector as a whole to do that , and and we 're very conscious of that , and er , certainly just in the last few weeks , have been looking at how we can upgrade what we 're doing in that sphere . |
| 24 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 25 | It 's one of the finest collections of first world war aeroplanes in existence , and it 's going on show to give people a little taste of that old movie magic . |
| 26 | It 's going on sale in September I think |
| 27 | it 's going on sale in a couple of weeks |
| 28 | It 's sitting on top of a thermal plume . |
| 29 | It is situated on Sorrento 's busy main street , half a mile from the town centre . |
| 30 | The environmental panic is heaven for the high priests of advertising whose function it is to capitalize on fears and desires . |