Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A burst of laughter , another joke , more laughter , more jokes , laughter/jokes/laughter/jokes in an escalating feedback spiralling higher , robbing the guests of the ability to eat , straining our jawbones , while Robin is relentless , driven , reckless , focusing on me as the host — host of the dinner , but of his wit — reducing my voluble everyday self to a tongue-tied Zeppo Marx , hallucinating , hungry , exhausted , and in pain , until kapow ! |
| 2 | you 're talking as much a about y it 's reflecting on you as the line manager , how much are you communicating with this |
| 3 | But with fighter pilots depending on them for the fuel to get home with , the tanker crews say they have a feeling their friends will look after them . |
| 4 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 5 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 6 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 7 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 8 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |
| 9 | The Save Venice trust are working on it at the moment . |
| 10 | These pull-down menus can all be accessed either by pressing ALT and the appropriate letter , or by clicking on them with the mouse . |
| 11 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |