Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [am/are] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home , and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own . |
| 2 | We , KPMG Peat Marwick ( ‘ KPMG ’ ) write to confirm the arrangements whereby we are to make on behalf of [ Acquiring Client ] ( ‘ Client ’ ) an offer ( the ‘ Offer ’ ) for the issued share capital of Target plc ( ‘ Target ’ ) . |
| 3 | In the last of her special reports on child friendly Scotland , Alison MacDonald 's been looking at how we 're doing on providing the basics like nursery places . |
| 4 | Of course even in a well-controlled crowd there are bound to be accidents when many thousands of spectators are gathered together , and Sadler ( 1983 ) describes the medical problems which commonly occur and how they are managed on such a large scale , with particular reference to the nurse 's role . |
| 5 | I mean I sometimes when I 'm performing on stage and people are laughing so much in the audience I think god , you know why ca n't I go and sit in the audience and watch this , they 're laughing so much . |
| 6 | From where I am sitting on the Rhine embankment I can see the Siebengebirge and the Drachenfels , named for the dragon which guarded the treasure-hoard of the Nibelungs . |
| 7 | But I would n't expect you to take my word for it , that 's why I 'm drawing on the Department 's manual which confirms my own experience . |
| 8 | That 's why I 'm going on it . " |
| 9 | Er to , to work the truth out of things , one has to think what Adam , Adam had lost in the beginning , what Jesus had to gain back , cos according to the Corinthian 's letter that erm Jesus came back to buy back what Adam had lost and if you can work out what Adam had lost in the , in the first place , then you can see the point why you 're put on the earth and you can see that it , that he , he was given a commandment not to take off the , the tree of kno knowledge written by were n't he ? |
| 10 | It 's extremely hard to explain why you are squatting on his lawn with your pyjamas round your ankles . |
| 11 | He called on the government and the EC to ‘ deal with this awful situation where we are sitting on such a mountain of food while millions are starving ’ . |
| 12 | That is why we are consulting on our proposals for extending compulsory competitive tendering to professional and technical services carried out by local authorities . |
| 13 | The defence protects the honest views of the crank and the eccentric , but not when they are based on dishonest statements of fact . |
| 14 | Although there can never be any guarantees , it is frequently the case that older children enjoy working with younger ones , enjoy the responsibility they are being given , and behave much better than they do when they are working on their own . |
| 15 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 16 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 17 | We have a large coalfired power station near where I live er in Oxfordshire er at a place called Didcot , which is also a railway er junction erm roughly halfway between Harwell where we , we invented er nuclear power and , and Culham where they 're working on nuclear fusion which is a different kind of nuclear power , roughly halfway between the government decides to build the largest coalfired power station in the country . |
| 18 | avoid putting neighbouring groups into a situation where they are competing on a win-lose basis for resources or status , for example . |
| 19 | During the hours they had set aside for practising , such girls are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus , where they are instructed on the difference between Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene with a degree of rigour reminiscent of their earliest scale-drumming days . |
| 20 | Over three hundred individuals give their time freely to support the R Y A where they are experienced on one central committee or another . |
| 21 | Why they are staying on this sad occasion is unclear . |