Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Detectives launched the massive operation after eavesdropping on the conversation between a mystery woman and the playboy yachtsman accused of murdering his parents . |
| 5 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gold lace trimming on the tricorn hat was the only relief . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Peregrine stood fuming on the pavement , bawling furiously after him . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Works from the series , mostly done in the 1970s , are at Knoedler this month , opening on the 13th and running until 11 March . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There was a narrow gate opening on the pathway , as she had expected there would be . |
| 21 | Outside , I could hear doors opening on the gallery and running footsteps . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Erm I think it 's important to recognize in rail terms that erm the east coast main line , erm particularly obviously er the section heading north , British Rail would not allow er a new station opening on the east coast main line , so you have to confine yourselves to looking at those which have a a regional railway route . |
| 24 | ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor . |
| 25 | Concluding the entry on Knock , the Curate next confided to his diary the tale of Father Vianney , a priest persecuted by the devil , who kept banging on the walls and throwing furniture around . |
| 26 | When I got home Mum and Dad were in their bedroom together and poor little Allie was outside banging on the door like a five-year-old . |
| 27 | A second after Perdita fell asleep , it seemed Luke was banging on the door telling her to get up and to wear a sweater as it was cold first thing . |
| 28 | Another great piece of illustration features in a book for younger readers , Who 's That Banging on The Ceiling ? |
| 29 | ‘ Alicia kept banging on the door saying it was John Major 's office but , of course , I did n't believe her . |
| 30 | In some places you get fans banging on the top of the dug-out and at others they lean forward and actually shout into managers ' faces . |