Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 32 | The car wove through the traffic on Hyde Park Corner and purred up Park Lane , the grime-grey hotels flashing by on the right . |
| 33 | The dawn was breaking as the cars rolled off the ferry at North Wall ; there was a sullen , red-streaked sky , with banks of threatening clouds building up on the horizon . |
| 34 | The men and women lying around on the ground were roughly shaken awake . |
| 35 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 36 | Stella has also raised the question of spouses joining in on the dinner circuit . |
| 37 | And lots of lean-to teashops with their sticky mud floors , mud walls with greasy pictures of gods and film stars ; the hole in the ground at the back where plates and glasses were washed and mouths swilled out ; grimy tables with uneven legs ; ants and wasps crawling around on the food displayed in front of the shop . |