Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because the way that these patterns are read is by knitting two rows of each colour , starting with colour one , then colour two , then colour three before moving on to the next line of the double length pattern . |
| 2 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 3 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 4 | Since students should by now be comparatively well-informed about basic segmental phonetics , it is very important that their production and recognition of this vowel should be good before moving on to the following chapters . |
| 5 | They fell into step , heading for the pub where they 'd arranged to meet some of the other girls prior to going on to the dance . |
| 6 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 7 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 8 | How many aircraft were they capable of working on at the same time ? |
| 9 | The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line . |
| 10 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 11 | There were in Portsmouth only one battalion of foot , 600 pensioners , a few marines doing duty in the port , or ready for drafting on to the ships or frigates then fitting out … |