Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The typical individual who is not a private customer because he is carrying on investment business is a " local " on a futures exchange ; ( 2 ) Small business investors , if they are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business . |
| 2 | ‘ He is putting on weight and picking up his strength and can sit up on his own for a couple of seconds . |
| 3 | At the moment they 're leading by three goals to two as now plays it away to this right hand side to Stewart , makes a charge forward , he 's taking on Chris , he 's getting to the right edge of the penalty area , he crosses low with his right boot , chance for in the area , he turned quickly on it but he blasted the t the shot over the top of the bar . |
| 4 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 5 | ‘ Gregoire now has some hair and he 's put on weight ! |
| 6 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |