Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 2 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 3 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 4 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 5 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 6 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 7 | But as she was passing the Misses Cardings ' shop she heard a loud tapping on the upper part of the door ; then it was pulled open and Miss Belle Carding beckoned Agnes towards her , saying , ‘ Come in a minute , dear . |
| 8 | Because of the enormous stresses and strains constantly operating on the lower back , there are various different ways in which the sciatic nerve roots can get squeezed . |
| 9 | I suspect any successful teaching is only improving on a natural bent . |
| 10 | A large engineering data base would be required to cover the useful range of engineering activities and should be handled by a separate suite of programs ( perhaps running on a remote machine ) . |
| 11 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |
| 12 | Brenda , her eyes suddenly alighting on a round milk stain on the table cloth , herself thought that breakfast was n't perhaps the most suitable time for a display of her recently acquired information about the investigation of rape . |
| 13 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 14 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 15 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 16 | The prospect of Moscow , Kabul , Islamabad and New Delhi all agreeing on a joint satellite monitoring venture is not great . |
| 17 | California tends to be expensive , offering little saving on the real thing . |
| 18 | In their amphibious war were all the hazards of land patrols and raids , with the added uncertainty of a seaborne approach all too easily foundering on an adverse change in the weather or some unexpected shoal . |
| 19 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 20 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not accusing anyone , just remarking on a strange coincidence . ’ |
| 22 | cos I 'm just deciding on a new window frame . |
| 23 | Some bees were already crawling on the early clover . |
| 24 | This applies whether you are just starting on a simple routine or whether you have already built up to one which is more strenuous . |
| 25 | His new putter would take the world by storm because it was revolutionary and , as Brian Harley was already demonstrating on the pro tour , the most effective putter ever designed . |
| 26 | But it 's also a personal thing : I do n't want to look as if I 'm just jumping on a green bandwagon . |
| 27 | How could such predictable junk fare , however hard , be compared to the excitement of conquering Il Duce or Caveman , climbing the tremendous granite routes of Chair Ladder and Bosigran , embarking on any route at Carn Gowla , or even just soloing on the sensuous jug pulling of Sennen — all untamed and wonderfully sculptured cliffs , free from the canker of distracting metal . |
| 28 | But karate was already emerging on the European scene , thanks to the efforts of the French martial arts teacher , Henri Plee . |
| 29 | If you are female , more than two stones overweight , and just embarking on a weight-loss programme — as opposed to switching from another slimming diet on which you have already lost some of your surplus weight . |
| 30 | Katherine wandered back into her bedroom and lazily sorted through her wardrobe , before finally settling on a simple gown of heavy blue satin that was at least two seasons out of date , but which served to hide her fuller figure as she refused to wear a corset . |