Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 2 | Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench . |
| 3 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 4 | Ranulf and Maltote disappeared like will-o'-the-wisps whilst Corbett received one of Maeve 's lectures about the need to rest , as well as the dangers of charging about on the King 's business in weather not fit for the worst of sinners . |
| 5 | Charles Hancy relates his experiences in travelling about on the hay business : |
| 6 | With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary . |
| 7 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 8 | Now I think it 's a bit rich t to slam the Liberals for walking out on the last debate because the Tories did n't attend the Health Trust Select Committee which Council set up . |
| 9 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ Laura ! ’ he groaned , tossing aside his shirt and swiftly divesting himself of his clothes before lying down on the bed beside her . |
| 11 | Their acquiescence was to be encouraged by a campaign of information and by mobilising convinced peasants to persuade recalcitrant ones , but nothing could stop the tractors from moving in on the appointed day . |
| 12 | The feet should be kept in the straps until sheeting in on the new tack , thereby keeping the board on its banked course throughout the crucial rig change . |