Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine ran smooth and strong after several hours of running it on the ground . |
| 2 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 3 | Wally was awarded the job for his bravery in receiving extensive brain surgery after years of concussing himself on the crossbar . |
| 4 | A NURSING home boss punished teenage girl workers by spanking them on the bottom , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 5 | But if the purpose is no more precisely formulated than that , the playback session may never get beyond teachers ' purely subjective reactions to seeing themselves on the screen . |
| 6 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 7 | They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border . |