Example sentences of "i [am/are] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fairfax and I are sitting on the verandah at Folly Farm . |
| 2 | At the moment he and I are working on a scheme which could wreck this political organisation for good . |
| 3 | To return to this country , I am advising on a draft Bill for the protection of antiquities the Society of Antiquaries , the Council for British Archaeology and the museum profession are behind it . |
| 4 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 5 | Now they have brought forward a plan which is that they should lend me sufficient money to rent another house in which Mr Landor is to have the first floor , comprising three rooms , a book closet , and a terrace , and I am to reside on the ground floor and care for him receiving £30 a year for my trouble . |
| 6 | Yes I am piling on the drama a bit , but there is a serious point being made . |
| 7 | I am standing on a mountain ledge at night . |
| 8 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 9 | Even so , I am teetering on the brink of spending £300 to replace the turntable I foolishly ditched as an anachronism a few months ago . |
| 10 | By the time we are all set to go to a club I am teetering on the brink . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I am sitting on the doorstep with several women of the Alto discussing nervos with them . |
| 13 | I am sitting on the edge of the shakedown bed I had hoped to sleep in . |
| 14 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 15 | I am dallying on the brink , and for an ex-smoker , the brink is a perilous place to be ; for an ex-smoker of the left , it is more perilous still . |
| 16 | Every time I meet her I am thrown on the defensive . |
| 17 | In an attempt to sharpen up the spongy brakes on my IIa , I am working on a process of elimination and the next venture was going to be flushing the system and changing the fluid . |
| 18 | At the moment , I am working on a novel and the kitchen table has on it only the ancient German electric typewriter which I use to type out the second draft of what I have already written by hand . |
| 19 | I still add to subjects that are particularly in my line — playground games like marbles , tops and balls — as at the moment I am working on a book about children 's play . |
| 20 | I am working on a replacement for him as it does not look as though he will be available until June . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I am working on a new system in the computer industry . |
| 22 | The first four volumes have been publishes and I am working on the final volume , covering chiefly the First World War . |
| 23 | I am working on the contract for the rest of the Grapevine package and will be sending you ( and John Statham ? ) drafts for your consideration in the near future . |
| 24 | Having made the Hannover picture I thought it would be nice to have a smaller version , so I now have a two-metre square version on canvas , also painted with Scanachrome , and I am working on the area of the television screen in a more painterly manner than I was able to use on the large one . |
| 25 | I am embarking on a number of projects which I hope to be of interest to fellow treasure hunters . |
| 26 | At this point I need to say that in this paper I am concentrating on the bad object relations that can exist between workers and managers . |
| 27 | I am tapped on the head by innumerable vice presidents , given a small raise , taken to the opera by the client , and sent to Hong Kong for the signing of the loan . |
| 28 | While I am waiting on the platform , a railway employee shouts across the track that the 9.49 is cancelled , and that the next train will be at 10.19 . |
| 29 | Well , I 'm joined on the line by Audrey . |
| 30 | ‘ Like I said , I 'm staying on a bit . |