Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 2 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 3 | The wedding between the two young gipsies was a moving ceremony , although Christian 's lengthy sermon had everyone fidgeting on the hard bench seats before it was ended . |
| 4 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 5 | ‘ What are you allowing on the civic side ’ |
| 6 | Then a little genuine humility will help you to work on the negative side and this will get you going on the right track . |
| 7 | ‘ You running on the wrong side of the road , ’ I was told by one serious 10-year-old . |
| 8 | They were welcomed by teacher Mark O'Callaghan and pupils David Lloyd , Claire Linney , Sarah Curry and Jay Kaminski for what turned out to be an even contest with everything depending on the final question . |
| 9 | But because of the astronomical odds against success , a series of small steps , each one building on the accumulated success of previous steps , is the only feasible way . |
| 10 | Then she hears something sizzling on the other side of the restaurant and decides she will have ‘ sizzling chicken ’ . |
| 11 | This ensure that there is something going on the whole time for both the spectator and the participator . |
| 12 | Now I 've got one coming on the other toe . |
| 13 | On distal tentacle pores there are only two tentacle scales , a large rounded one arising on the lateral arm plate and a smaller more spine-like one on the ventral arm plate . |
| 14 | and one sitting on the other chair arm |
| 15 | That foundation is analytically stronger than one relying on the casual observation that since companies possess power , they must use that power ‘ responsibly ’ . |
| 16 | As she wiped down the kitchen wall , she could see herself sitting on the half-buried block where she and her Dad used to picnic , watching the — |
| 17 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 18 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 19 | His fears of not making the grade evaporated when ITV talent scouts spotted him wrestling on the amateur circuit . |
| 20 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 21 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 22 | The blue-green pillars of Hamelin Pool are living stromatolites and the groups of them standing on the sun-dappled sea-floor are as close as we may ever get to a scene from the world of two thousand million years ago . |
| 23 | The architect then showed on paper what he thought would meet those needs , with both of them relying on the practical knowledge and experience of the builder to know how the works would have to be carried out . |
| 24 | The President of the United States has to press one button , the man on the spot another : the radio frequencies are so wildly different that the chances of anyone happening on the right combination are billions to one . ’ |
| 25 | His nurse had brought the paper back from her lunch break and left it lying on the low coffee table during his appointments with his two previous patients . |
| 26 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 27 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 28 | Under the new policy , anyone working on the twelfth floor will need to go down to the first floor to clock out , to the fourth floor to find a smoking room , down to the first to clock on again and back to the twelfth to carry on working . |
| 29 | There was nothing bearing on the present question , whether a release by accord and satisfaction of a claim for rent against an assignee would release the original lessee and other covenantors . |
| 30 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |