Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is time to go downstairs , to see how Deirdre is getting on in the kitchen , to make sure the butlers are not drinking too much . |
| 2 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 3 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 4 | So John Broome is switching on to the green , green grass of home . |
| 5 | Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year . |
| 6 | Fred was thundering on with the speech as though the corpse had n't fled , and at the same time bobbing up onto the balls of his feet with relief from the lost burden . |
| 7 | Maureen was getting on to the museum about bringing an expert to have a look at the place . ’ |
| 8 | As Eadmer saw it , the turning point came in 1076 , when Lanfranc was pressing on with the building of the new church , and had recently appointed Henry , his Italian fellow-countryman from Bec , as prior . |
| 9 | Isabel was going on about the boots . |
| 10 | It was rather a more specific and harsher problem which , to put it bluntly , was to survive as Westland was drifting on to the rocks of insolvency . |