Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 2 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 3 | The professions have lost many of their better men ; many of those who remain are concentrating on maximising profits and fees to feather nests in the US , Canada or Australia . |
| 4 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 5 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 6 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 7 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 8 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 10 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 11 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 12 | This week Tom has been living on a glass of water , half a cup of tea and just one small dinner a day . |
| 13 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |
| 14 | Sandi Toksvig , the comedy actress , has been advising on the seventy fifth birthday plans with television , book and consumer magazine support , she 'll be visiting Zimbabwe in October with a B B C television crew to film a documentary and will be visiting and filming Save The Children Fund projects while she 's there . |
| 15 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 16 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 17 | Jim Cotterill and Lorrie Austin , who is obliged to play in a police match , are also out , but Andrew Kennedy , the Grammar schoolboy who has been piling on the runs , is available . |
| 18 | The Bishop , the Right Reverend Peter Ball , has been resting on orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury , since being questioned by police before Christmas . |
| 19 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 20 | It 's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt . |
| 21 | The Dad 's Music programme has been running on Middlesbrough 's local radio station ever since it started broadcasting in 1970 . |
| 22 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 23 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 24 | Plenty of people turned up , including Mark Lennox Boyd , one of the influential and able new generation of Conservatives , and MP for ITE Merlewood , the Father of the House , John Parker , who has been campaigning on the environment and forestry since 1935 , and a Green troika of David Clark , Opposition spokesman on environment , Peter Hardy , author of a book on badgers , and chairman of the Council of Europe Agricultural Committee , and me . |
| 25 | Friends of the Earth Cymru has been campaigning on green issues in Wales for 10 years but relies on donations . |
| 26 | Dr. Kumar , the 35-year-old research scientist , who is single and lives in Marton , has been campaigning on his short but busy record as an MP . |
| 27 | Things like this should n't really surprise people because we have been telling them about what has been going on Down Under for years . ’ |
| 28 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 29 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 30 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |