Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a hissing sound of milk boiling over on the stove behind her and she managed to twist herself sideways and grab the saucepan . |
| 2 | That 's a lot of light coming in on the back I think . |
| 3 | In 1850 he decided to mine the seam of ironstone cropping out on the Cleveland Hills east of Middlesbrough , soon erecting nine blast-furnaces for its treatment and establishing the commercial viability of Cleveland iron . |
| 4 | There was still perhaps three-quarters of an hour of daylight left , but the sun was just glimpses of coppery gold between vast castles of cloud stacking up on the horizon . |
| 5 | As she turned to leave the room , she caught sight of Inge hovering out on the landing . |
| 6 | They hung there in the sky like faces of fire looking down on the island , like something waiting . |
| 7 | Emyr Lewis switches from blindside flanker to No 8 , with Perego taking over on the flank . |
| 8 | Over in the corner of the sizable room an electronic organ was giving out Moon River , the player a young , prematurely bald man , with sweat standing out on the smooth , polished face and head . |