Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.

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1 I 'm laying it on the table .
2 Er , no I think I 'm having him on the Monday cos she 's going to have her hair permed
3 Well , he said , I 'm putting them on the train and they 'll be in Valley on the seven o'clock train for you On Friday night this was .
4 Well I erm I 'm basing it on the Tower Hamlets model .
5 I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice .
6 Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’
7 I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor .
8 Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care .
9 Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside .
10 Chubb has sold 47.5m Sun shares to brokers S G Warburg , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs who are placing them on the market .
11 Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them .
12 whether you 're dropping it on the putting the acid to the the alkal the the metal , the alkali , the base or the carbonate , the salt is always a salt of the acid .
13 You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’
14 Just by opting for a more left field occupation you 're putting yourself on the edge a bit It really does take a bit of bottle to do that and find your own way through the maze rather than just go with the flow .
15 Well that thing 's pretty easy if you 're doing it on the beach but what if you 're out in the water and it suddenly gusts up .
16 so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis
17 Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’
18 You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’
19 Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ?
20 When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants .
21 The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) .
22 Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch .
23 Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them .
24 The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard .
25 Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits .
26 Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs .
27 And we 're doing something on the character of the Christian , er I ca n't , obedience , , righteousness is one and I ca n't remember what the other is .
28 I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not
29 On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep !
30 Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J !
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