Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHELSEA are banking on the second oldest swinger in town to outwit Middlesbrough 's attack tonight . |
| 2 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
| 3 | Mr Gray was commenting on the Scottish Office 's admission that costings made by its consultants , Touche Ross , were being revised . |
| 4 | Bernie was squatting on the other side of the trolley . |
| 5 | Faye was lying on the outdoor lounger on the veranda as she had been yesterday , and she greeted Belinda briefly , her face creased with tension , before turning to Tom . |
| 6 | And a further indication of the influence Down Under is exerting on the Irish is the news that the IRFU 's professional director of rugby at Lansdowne Road , George Spotswood — to be accompanied by one of his technical officer , former international Willie Anderson — will be in New Zealand in July . |
| 7 | We have heard recently that Trafford is working on the same lines , so we will have to get a move on . |
| 8 | Philip was working on the electrical wiring of the top floor with the easy-paced contemplative manner of a workman . |
| 9 | Victor was sitting on the wrong side of the bar with Claudette , nursing a calvados nightcap . |
| 10 | Mum Caroline recalls : ‘ Oliver was jumping on the bouncy castle with his brothers when suddenly one of them ran in to say Oliver had hurt himself . |
| 11 | Lee was sitting on the fallen branch . |
| 12 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 13 | In America it is settled by convention that law is made by statues enacted by Congress or the state legislatures in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , and in England that decisions by the House of Lords are binding on the lower courts . |
| 14 | At this point Giddens is touching on the deep-lying emotional instincts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 15 | The greatest significance of the fact that the fabliaux are contes en vers is actually obscured by Bédier 's focusing on the regular use of the verse mode . |
| 16 | The Racial Equality Council in Cleveland is calling on the next government to strengthen the Race Relations Act . |
| 17 | Li Yuan was standing on the far side of the room , beside the ceremonial kang , one foot up on the ledge of it , his right hand stroking his unbearded chin . |
| 18 | Jed did n't know it , but Celia was listening on the other side of the curtain , her laughter stifled by a mouthful of number 42 . |
| 19 | The Dictionary had reached its sixth edition and Miller was working on the seventh , revising it to incorporate the Linnaean system of classification . |
| 20 | Emily was lying on the black sofa in the sitting-room . |
| 21 | But 27-year-old Clinton is banking on the traditional deafening din to help him wrest the WBO flyweight title from Mexican Isidro Perez and become only the sixth Scot to hold a world crown . |
| 22 | There is a war on , Britain is fighting on the right side . |
| 23 | Roy Jenkins himself thought his friend Hugh Gaitskell was fighting on the wrong ground , and ought to have concentrated on amending not the party 's dogma , but its working constitution , ‘ so as , for example , to make the National Executive Committee less the creature of the trade unions and more that of the Parliamentary Labour Party ’ . |
| 24 | Zervos was dancing on the tiled floor and beating at the air . |
| 25 | The pressure to do work against 'cos they knew that Germany were working on the same lines , did n't they , the enormous pressure to get there first . |
| 26 | Both are worried that Keith is embarking on the long downhill road to delinquency and even the nursery staff have resorted to clichés to describe his behaviour . |
| 27 | But Barbara was sitting on the carpeted floor , both hands braced before her . |
| 28 | Rufus was sitting on the blue-tiled rim of it with his feet dangling in the water . |
| 29 | Ex-Wigan favourite Iro was looking on the bright side yesterday . |
| 30 | By 1952 the attraction of America was tugging on the young journalist . |