Example sentences of "they 're [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We check out with our new staff regularly , whether they feel comfortable in their role and whether they 're getting on OK . |
| 2 | Well look there 's an estimation look they 're parking , they 're queuing on this brow of the hill instead of the other one . |
| 3 | They 're feeding on this here , on this flour . |
| 4 | And so they 're laying on this seminar for as many parish councillors who want to go to explain the planning procedures . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | he added , ‘ they 're working on that . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |