Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 2 | You do not have to be a Marxist to see that the official statistics of unemployment include only those who are signing on at Job Centres and are eligible for benefit . |
| 3 | ‘ You ca n't say it 's a coincidence that in every interview you see with these women the journalist always picks that five minutes where they 're going on about abuse or victimisation . |
| 4 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 5 | or whether there is really a situation there , which probably has been going on since time in memorial , that we 've only just started to hear about it . |
| 6 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 7 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 8 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |
| 9 | And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies . |
| 10 | More 16-year-olds are staying on at school than ever before — more than 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Hers is perhaps a 30 year plan , a code that will keep her name in neon until her teenage fans are getting on for grandparenthood and Madonna is another has-been . |
| 12 | IT is unfortunate that NASUWT , the career teachers ' organisation , should be banging on about quality in education in a leaflet just issued . |
| 13 | Erm so maybe they 'll be going on to university , college university . |
| 14 | An hour had passed since she had thought about Catherine , about her and Mike and what would be going on at home . |
| 15 | MILLIONAIRE Alan Sugar will be staying on as chairman following the defeat of his buy-out plan . |
| 16 | They 'll be packing on of season , even if it 's that 's a funny thing . |
| 17 | Around July time Sequent will release , for its Symmetry servers , the version of Unix SVR4 ES/MP that it worked on for Unix System Labs and has been sitting on since completion last March . |
| 18 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 19 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 20 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 21 | The film tantalises us — and Evelyn , who is hanging on to Ninny 's every word — right to the end . |
| 22 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 23 | How does the market recognise that someone is trading on inside information ? |
| 24 | Jimmy Tarbuck is rabbiting on in front of the tabs , the dancers are in position , stretching their limbs and adjusting their costumes , bathed in the blue of first lighting condition . |
| 25 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 26 | During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager . |
| 27 | Erm the next stage is going on to unit four which is the the actual training plan which I think is where we 're we 're at today . |
| 28 | Diana much prefers sitting in the body of the auditorium where she can see what is going on on stage . |
| 29 | We can get some idea of what is going on by thinking of a sheet of canvas stretched on a horizontal frame . |
| 30 | However , this is clearly not what is going on in anorexia nervosa , although I do believe that emptiness is being used as a metaphor . |