Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 3 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 4 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 6 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 7 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 8 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 9 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 10 | Ruining your good trousers wriggling about on the ground . |
| 11 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 12 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 13 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 14 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 15 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 16 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 17 | First the Oxford United saga goes on … with things improving out on the pitch , off the field it 's a tangled complex web of debts , transfers , receivers , and … adjourned annual general meetings . |
| 18 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 19 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 20 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |
| 21 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |
| 22 | Enemy tanks could be illuminated with laser beams and destroyed by missiles homing in on the laser frequency . |
| 23 | He already had two of the things clinking about on the back seat . |
| 24 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 25 | Raise the toes of the back leg and — without the toes touching back on the floor — stand up using the thigh strength of the front leg . |
| 26 | It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left . |
| 27 | The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success . |
| 28 | It 's a fine sunny day in August — but where are all the loafers lyin' about on the grass ? ’ |
| 29 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 30 | On election nights members of the locality would collect in a state of great excitement to hear the results coming in on the station telegraph . |