Example sentences of "i [verb] be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 3 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 4 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 5 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |
| 6 | I tell you the one I like was Carry on er Beau Geste or something like that , Carry on |
| 7 | The only outings I remember being taken on as a child were once with the school to the zoo and once by my mother to a seaside promenade . |
| 8 | Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on . |
| 9 | ‘ I love being spied on by the enemy , ’ I mutter , and turn my face the other way . |
| 10 | Well I know but I 'm talking about , with break ins , I mean , people are a a I think are getting on with it and there 's no deterrent for the |
| 11 | Well , I think it erm , very , I mean I think as you said Chairman , if erm , there 's a clear majority for one party it 'll unblock a whole lot of delay and decision making which I think is going on and I think that that should be helpful . |
| 12 | Erm then Nick actually represents Nicholas Khrushchev which I think is spelt on here . |
| 13 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 14 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 15 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 16 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 17 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 19 | Something I 've been working on . ’ |
| 20 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 21 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been moaning on about Perdita all evening , but at least she 's alive , whereas Will … ’ |
| 23 | Erm the simple reason is I 've been signing on , erm they 've suspended my unemployment . |
| 24 | I 've been signing on postally in fact . |
| 25 | I 've been chattering on far too long . |
| 26 | Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because |
| 27 | I really feel I 'm a Lion in New Zealand now that I have been trampled on , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 29 | Eyes turned to boarded up windows and rubbish strewn in gardens and the depressing picture moved the prince to say : ‘ This is why I have been going on for so long about architecture in the environment . ’ |