Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 2 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 3 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 4 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 5 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 6 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 7 | She and her music would get through it ; just as Jay was forcing herself to thrive on an inimitable diet of white wine and forties Chicago gangland trash . |
| 8 | She had great difficulty getting herself accepted on a government-sponsored TOPS course because she was considered over-qualified . |
| 9 | The Police Federation has attacked the initiative , calling it crimefighting on the cheap . |
| 10 | of course , if the vacancy requirements fluctuate as well , as is the case with contractors , a kind of see-saw effect sets in with the recruitment team oscillating between periods of intense activity and chaos on the one hand , and having nothing to do on the other hand . |
| 11 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 12 | Ultimately , he says , he opposed it since it would mean terminating the 386BSD project , an action CSRG has taken , as well as having him renege on a published promise to produce freely accessible 386 code . |
| 13 | Aye , it seems I 'd have been better letting it run on the blooming thing . |
| 14 | Sir Fulke 's honesty in admitting he walked on the frozen moat saved him from suspicion . |
| 15 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't look so dismayed , ’ begged Mrs Alderley , taking Theda 's hand and obliging her to sit on an elegant Sheraton sofa . |