Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are binding on all academics engaged in their profession , whatever their discipline . |
| 2 | Why they are staying on this sad occasion is unclear . |
| 3 | Now it seems to me that they are challenging on that basis that they can it can be it can be detailed at the local level that individual boundaries can be challenged . |
| 4 | When worn battened down without a hat , the hood really needs some sort of volume adjuster at the back , or else the soft peak reduced visibility dramatically ( Lowe say they are working on this ) . |
| 5 | ( They are standing on some windy street corner , say . ) |
| 6 | Well look there 's an estimation look they 're parking , they 're queuing on this brow of the hill instead of the other one . |
| 7 | They 're feeding on this here , on this flour . |
| 8 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 9 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 10 | Or they were n't , or , you see the other important point here is that British Rail will be restructuring all the twenty five potential passenger franchises , they 're starting on this now |
| 11 | Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing . |
| 12 | Yeah the T V could do with a few big ones , alright okay body stopper , they want you to have a T V on and be tempted , depends on what , how it went , to ask them to turn it off but if you ca n't that would upon them then you 'll have to work with it because what you do n't want to be seeing is okay they are there , you 're here and they 're concentrating on this . |
| 13 | he added , ‘ they 're working on that . ’ |
| 14 | I B M , U K , which celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year , has some sixteen thousand employees based in some fifty two locations throughout the United Kingdom , and they 're working on all aspects of information technology , er , from software to silicon , from telecommunications to personal systems , and of course we form part of a very large company , I B M Corporation , which employs around three hundred and seventy thousand people across the world . |
| 15 | But they were staying on another week … ’ |
| 16 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 17 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 18 | They were sitting on either side of a dying fire . |
| 19 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 20 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |