Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [pron] [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.

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1 Angrily she turned to the door and yanked it open , almost colliding with David Markham who was standing on the threshold .
2 They also come into the works voluntarily on Sunday mornings to assist the ERPS team who are working on the locomotive .
3 For some choral music — the Missa Solemnis we were watching on film — you do n't use a baton either .
4 Police in Hemel Hempstead are asking shoppers and pubgoers to watch videos of missing four year old Simon Jones which are going on public view .
5 Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel .
6 She glared at Bruce Bogtrotter who was sitting on his chair like some huge overstuffed grub , replete , comatose , unable to move or to speak .
7 Malcolm Muggeridge about Mrs Marilyn Carr , a candidate in a Croydon by-election who was standing on a ‘ pro-life programme ’ ; against abortion and the medical termination of babies born deformed or with Down 's Syndrome .
8 He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit , silk shirt and tie , and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet .
9 Don Mini paused and turned his eyes upon Little Billy who was sitting on a branch not far away .
10 Empress Software claims to have the first RDBMS and 4GL running on MACH on a 486 : The port was done for TRW Financial Systems which is standardising on MACH .
11 When he met Eileen Ryan she was sitting on a bank with a dazed look , her bicycle up-ended in a ditch .
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