Example sentences of "[am/are] [v-ing] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 2 | Thankfully , some Scottish firms are muscling in on the act . |
| 3 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 4 | I am looking down on the world , but it does not stretch away over nebulous distant horizons . |
| 5 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 6 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 10 | Er , yes , Mr Chairman , nationally it is going down , locally we 're , we 're going along on a plateau , erm , and in some areas it is actually go the incidence is going up , but this is basically like Scotland where they have n't got many anyway . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | ‘ You 're going back on the defensive , Mark . |
| 13 | Do you think you could look into trying to , when we 're going back on the information , sending an individual fax for each case ? |
| 14 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 15 | it 's you know , for the workers , they 're going out on a meal . |
| 16 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | The old super temps I said so I said we 're going out on the piss . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And the Monday especially if we 're travelling back on the Monday |
| 23 | Especially when you 're starting off on the right foot like you and Marilyn . |
| 24 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 25 | They 're coming in on a starship disguised as a Boeing 747 so that the locals wo n't suspect until it 's too late , but when they land at London Heathrow their baggage gets lost ; all their heavy weaponry ends up in Miami and gets mixed up with the luggage of some psychiatrists attending an international symposium on anal-fixation after death , and : Freudians take over the world with the captured high-tech . |
| 26 | They 're coming in on the Wednesday are n't they ? |
| 27 | I mean they , they both firmly saying they 're coming back on a full time basis , |
| 28 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 29 | Even though they 're coming out on the inside . |
| 30 | They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds . |