Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 3 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 4 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 5 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 6 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 7 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 8 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 9 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the mummies of the pharaohs , removed from display by President Sadat in 1970 , are to go back on show in the Cairo museum in May . |
| 11 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 12 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 13 | Yeah it 's been given out on the radio today Dennis . |
| 14 | " Another fashion we are stamping out on the plantation , Auguste , is Bolshevism , " he said , leaning earnestly towards the recruiter . |
| 15 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 16 | All steel parts are checked through on a magnaflux machine . |
| 17 | I am catching up on George Orwell , too , and reading Solzhenitsyn . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , unless we are to fall back on the unsatisfactory practice of listing verbs which do support the construction and those which do not , some other factor must be waiting to be discovered , which will help to explain why ( 56 ) and ( 67 ) seem outright ungrammatical , and yet we can have either of ( 68 ) and ( 69 ) : ( 68 ) Tania left despondently ( 69 ) Tania left despondent To conclude , we may point out that there will clearly be a close connexion , under certain choices of lexical items , between the surface construction ( 44 ) and ordinary predicative position . |
| 19 | They are catching up on Daedalus and he will have to go into strict training for a swifter sprint . |
| 20 | I had underestimated the importance placed on personal cleanliness and hygiene , and had been caught out on my underpants . |
| 21 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 22 | Did you realise that 43 per cent of all sociological surveys are carried out on the M1 , M4 and M6 ? |
| 23 | However , many market research studies are carried out on large samples which would be beyond the reach of academic researchers and it is not unusual to find commercial surveys which contain quite valuable social information . |
| 24 | Today , the importance of good sampling becomes more important as more and more surveys are carried out on sample bases . |
| 25 | Using a word processor , all corrections are carried out on the screen before a document is printed . |
| 26 | Certain features are carried out on a large scale . |
| 27 | File selection and search practice are carried out on two emulated systems ( DIALOG and ORBIT ) . |
| 28 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 29 | Psychologists theorizing about animal Umwelten need to ask what such inferences might be , what is the perceptual evidence in which the animal 's concepts are anchored , and what are the motor activities which test for them or which are carried out on the basis of conditional tests defined in terms of them . |
| 30 | Most abortions within marriage are carried out on women over age 30 ( 56% per cent in 1988 ) . |