Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on and " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is also new is that they are building on and developing research in the various components of information skills . |
| 2 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 3 | they 're talking none about the , the economy and turn up before the end of the year , this , the , the , they 've been hanging on and on and on , and er slagging one another off all the time |
| 4 | Such covenants , so far as they relate to the premises leased , are binding on and enforceable by assignees both of lessor and lessee . |
| 5 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 6 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 7 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 8 | Denis Smith says come along and enjoy what they 're putting on and they can guarantee they will be working hard |
| 9 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |
| 10 | This brief outline gives some idea of what has been going on and where we have got to , a brief outline of the key tasks , and the progress made on these . |
| 11 | He 'll know exactly what 's been going on and will be only too eager to help us . |
| 12 | ‘ We have lost a tremendous amount of trade over the 14 months that the construction work has been going on and we should have been told exactly what was happening , ’ he said . |
| 13 | But then he said a neighbour who had a dress , just wearing a dressing gown and he was married with three kids which is next door heard what going , been going on and he they were chasing , were chasing all through the common . |
| 14 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 15 | are going on and I just did n't feel that we could erm support one . |
| 16 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 17 | ‘ It 's been bleeding on and off all night , ’ he responded coolly . |
| 18 | it 's just the pure political aspect that because people are moving on and you need to be seen to be you need to use that for your own advantage . |
| 19 | And then they used to go around on a Sunday morning from farm to farm to see how the other chaps are getting on and to say how much better their horses looked . |
| 20 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 21 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 22 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 23 | they seem to be going on and on and on |
| 24 | But I 'm getting on and who cares what I think ? |
| 25 | they always come just just as I 'm getting on and getting well luckily enough I got me me lounge done first thing this morning . |
| 26 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 27 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 28 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 29 | And you were hanging on and trying to keep your feet on the floor ! |
| 30 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |