Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said : ‘ I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
| 32 | ‘ That will depend on my performances and I hope that as long as my form for Liverpool improves I will be knocking on the door . |
| 33 | This causes massive expansion of air , and demonic winds churn up dust so that one seems to be walking on the bed of a murky sea . |
| 34 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 35 | A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter . |
| 36 | As the carriage is moved along the needle bed , the brush on the leading edge of the sinker plate will be pushing on the weaving yarn which has been laid over the needles to move it to the right position . |
| 37 | ‘ You will continually be living on the edge of a volcano ’ , wrote Hatton offering advice to budding youth workers , ‘ for no one can know when an outburst of general indiscipline will occur . ’ |
| 38 | People seemed to be living on the edge of their nerves . |
| 39 | ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday . |
| 40 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 41 | Children 's entertainment has n't been forgotten and a child 's fair , including mechanical rides , swings and a roundabout will also be operating on the site . |
| 42 | And apparently Jason Horfitz then said he would n't be passing on the information he had to anybody else as he did n't want to end up in a ditch . ’ |
| 43 | Behbehanian was to write to all foreign banks that held the Shahs funds to inform then that form no on His Imperial Majesty would be dealing with them direct and the He Muhammad Behbehanian , would no longer be acting on the Shah 's behalf . |
| 44 | Pascoe is back on Wearside after a four-month loan spell with Swansea and Roker No 2 Ferguson said : ‘ He should be bashing on the door to get into this side . |
| 45 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 46 | We would pay for accommodation , e.g. in a guest house or hotel but not the cost of meals as the Policyholder would be saving on the cost of food , cooking , etc . |
| 47 | When he woke up , he 'd be lying on the floor of the boozer , and Sergeant Lawrence would be lifting him to his feet , dragging him outside to the panda car . |
| 48 | I am firmly convinced we will be celebrating on the way home to Glasgow . ’ |
| 49 | But you see , you , you see , you could , you could have your goods then you 'll be paying on the slip and he would give you a slip you see . |
| 50 | One of the 100 Merseysiders who will be going on the trip , whines : ‘ We definitely wo n't be drinking before we have to drive back but I 'm sure we 'll have the odd glass or three when we make it back to Liverpool . ’ |
| 51 | They 'll be going on the air , soon . ’ |
| 52 | AN UPDATED computerised loo will be going on the market in Japan soon — it 'll be able to give a detailed report on the user 's health by analysing the contents of the deposit |
| 53 | And who knows what creep will be waiting on the roadside to accompany them . |
| 54 | ‘ I was afraid you 'd be waiting on the doorstep . |
| 55 | NIGEL MANSELL 'S old boss Frank Williams will be waiting on the sidelines today as motor sport 's top brass sit down in Paris to find a way of saving next year 's Grand Prix calendar and prevent his Williams team from paying a massive fine . |
| 56 | Are there any problems that may be looming on the horizon that perhaps you ought to be addressing before they reach the door ? |
| 57 | Oh , it was thrilling to be flying on the back of this great swan ! |
| 58 | Franco seemed to be riding on the crest of the wave as he entered the second decade of his rule — his " magistracy " as he called it in his own grandiloquent language . |
| 59 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 60 | We would expect them to be proceeding on the basis of a specific sector , a general location in sufficient detail to enable them to place a symbol on the key diagram in the approximate location where they think a new settlement should go . |