Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the Fists were disembarking on the double . |
| 2 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 3 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 4 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 5 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 6 | Detectives launched the massive operation after eavesdropping on the conversation between a mystery woman and the playboy yachtsman accused of murdering his parents . |
| 7 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 8 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 9 | The company began to talk of passing the winter in the south-west , of hiding the pageant in a barn somewhere and over-wintering on the money they had taken . |
| 10 | ‘ Stella Maris , ’ he muttered against her hair , and jumped away like a fish leaping on a bank . |
| 11 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 12 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 13 | Gold lace trimming on the tricorn hat was the only relief . |
| 14 | Some of the more dress-conscious horsemen ordered a special kind of trimming on the leg — an inlet or gusset of black velvet , running from the bottom of the trousers , on the outside , and tapering to a point somewhere near the knee . |
| 15 | There are many splendid things to acquire , including the equipment from the recently installed gymnasium with its rowing machine and computer print-out , so you can envisage yourself sculling on the Thames . |
| 16 | Peregrine stood fuming on the pavement , bawling furiously after him . |
| 17 | ONE of Britain 's most prestigious stores , Selfridges , made history yesterday by opening on a Sunday . |
| 18 | Now it 's been so successful , it 's opening on a permanent basis . |
| 19 | Oxford City Council has brought the prosecutions against the Reject Shop , B and Q and the HMV record shop for opening on a Sunday . |
| 20 | I mean to my mind if they 're opening on a Sunday they should bring their prices down because they 're opening that extra day they 're going to be taking extra revenue . |
| 21 | Because they 're opening on a Sunday and hoping that you 'll go in |
| 22 | Just as the rhymes , assonances and phrasal structures hover at the edge of identification , so the poem as a whole offers romantic glimpses of ‘ old unhappy far-off things ’ ( to cite Wordsworth ) , or ‘ magic casements opening on the foam/Of perilous seas , in faer y lan ds for l orn ’ ( to remember Keats ) . |
| 23 | Works from the series , mostly done in the 1970s , are at Knoedler this month , opening on the 13th and running until 11 March . |
| 24 | Sponsored by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and opening on the day of the artist 's birth , this survey ( 20 April-30 August ) has been curated by the Foundation 's director , Rosa Maria Malet . |
| 25 | More than thirty works by Balla , Boccioni , Marini , Medardo Rosso , Fontana and Manzó figure in ‘ A Short History of Modern Italian Sculpture ’ opening on the 22nd at Baldaccio-Daverio and lasting until 6 June . |
| 26 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 27 | He turned down Salvation Street and gained some shelter from the houses , which were small , granite-built , with their front doors opening on the street . |
| 28 | There was a narrow gate opening on the pathway , as she had expected there would be . |
| 29 | Outside , I could hear doors opening on the gallery and running footsteps . |
| 30 | Er and they have forced erm their union to aban or the shop workers have forced their union to abandon its previous policy erm and back opening on the sabbath . |