Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it |
| 2 | I have n't got any clothes at all except what I 've got on . ’ |
| 3 | In the past I 've always stayed here at Lomond View , and that 's precisely what I intend to carry on doing ! ’ |
| 4 | What I want to go on to discuss in the , in the last part of the lecture is another way in which Freud 's work looks , looks backwards , or seems to look backwards . |
| 5 | Right , what I want to work on today , is and 's reminded me , that incidentally that that essay which you 're due to write in class on the Monday we come back after half term , there is n't a Monday we come back after half term . |
| 6 | . What I want to come on to now is just to talk about nonlinearity , and still with reference to demand elasticities . |
| 7 | At this distance in time , I can not pretend that I had my doubts about its merits : what I did dwell on was a certain psychological subtlety in retailing the author 's love-life , though in terms which today would he considered ludicrously niminy-piminy . |
| 8 | Well that makes a kind of convenient break actually , because what I wanted to start on er then was things which really perhaps ought to be postponed till , till next . |
| 9 | The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn . |
| 10 | So you 're just going to compile a menu and you 're gon na hope that Joe public likes what you 've put on ? |
| 11 | If you are in this position it is important to take stock of what you have taken on . |
| 12 | Before he gets out his scissors , repeat what you have agreed on , to check that you 're both talking the same language . |
| 13 | It came out of what we saw going on , the increasing pressure on kids today compared with how it was when we were growing up . |
| 14 | ‘ A significant chunk of what we earn goes on child-minding . |
| 15 | There is no institutional culture here , which there is at the BBC , and that 's what we have to trade on in the next 10 years . |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't really know what actually goes on in the world , like whether there really is honey : all we really know , and therefore all we can really tell other people , is what we believe goes on in the world . ’ |
| 17 | The only other thing I have to put to you is this that I 've already put to er what we allege went on in that bedroom . |
| 18 | excellent , scale and ability what we need to agree on is the skills and abilities that we want in there . |
| 19 | This , if it needs to be made more precise , is what we need to concentrate on , as some others have before , although without coming to the conclusion we shall reach . |
| 20 | and then finding someway what they 've said on there is try to make some sentences that use it so that you can remember what it looks like . |
| 21 | So everyone every everyone everyone should have a copy of the questions in their book just to tell what they 've worked on . |
| 22 | Well they 've got what they 've got on here is they 've got whale watch talk and slides . |
| 23 | So all the stuff in their bags is clean , and all they 've got is what they 've got on |
| 24 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 25 | At the outset Helen Martini said the prospects of what they had taken on were daunting , but she had no doubts about what they could accomplish . |
| 26 | Esler Dening commented that he had always suspected that the Americans had not appreciated the full significance of what they had taken on in Korea ; it appeared that they were unwilling to accept the consequences of being located in an area of Soviet predominance and it would be regrettable in its implications elsewhere if the United States retreated . |
| 27 | You send it round , what they want training on and it comes back to the manager |
| 28 | The cuts will wipe out what they have to live on . |
| 29 | And it all comes over in hard black and white in his report to me , and I 've really only got what he says to go on , in that sort of case . |
| 30 | That was what he had to concentrate on . |