Example sentences of "be [v-ing] on [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But … but I will worry if I think you are hanging on waiting , because it 's no good . |
| 2 | and at the end of it , see you always think that you 're going on do n't you ? |
| 3 | Sometimes the picture you 're working on answers back . |
| 4 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 5 | That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ? |
| 6 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 7 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 8 | An ex-Portsmouth Polytechnic student who was told by her economics tutor that ‘ all girls who get through are going on to do shorthand and typing in the evening ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Inquiries are going on identify this man with fingerprints . ’ |
| 10 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 11 | Now the Anyons will be returning on dives to search for the boat the sword guard came from . |
| 12 | ‘ The boat I 'm living on belongs to Mr Marshall . |
| 13 | Pat told the Careers Officer : ‘ I 'm going on to become a professional footballer ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Do n't all look at me , you 're supposed to be going on talking ! |
| 15 | Fletcher , one of New Zealand 's biggest companies , said that everything was going to plan and that the UK Paper management team , including chairman Tom Wilding , will be staying on to run the company . |
| 16 | ‘ Not tonight , Father , I 'm staying on to do some work . |
| 17 | Label the pipes you will be working on to avoid confusion later on . |
| 18 | This new hoist I 'm working on needs modifications . |
| 19 | The story I 'm working on started with the idea of what it would be like to break your glasses on holiday . |
| 20 | Then a grinding and then all of a sudden Captain Pugwash fell flat on his face as the stone he had been sitting on swung upwards , revealing a dark space below . |
| 21 | But such a tax would drastically hit the sales of tapes , which the Japanese are relying on to justify the £25 million factory in Telford , Shropshire . |
| 22 | Yesterday National Grid confirmed that talks were going on involving money . |
| 23 | The percentage of people who were going on to start basic training stood at four per cent in September 1984 . |
| 24 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 25 | They did not realise that the obligations they were taking on left them with no leeway to cope with worsening market conditions . |
| 26 | Holidays to him were carrying on studying tax matters and that really was relaxation to him . |
| 27 | Painters Robin Phelps , from Brockweir , in Gloucestershire , and Eric Sullivan , from Tintern , in Gwent , were killed when the gantry they were working on collapsed in September nineteen ninety . |
| 28 | All the guy who 's pushing on has done is got from one holdup to the next holdup quicker than the next feller . |
| 29 | What the mould is growing on appears to be a cornflake . |
| 30 | Having achieved that first aim through a postal survey the project is going on to examine two major issues . |