Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 2 | He lay grinning up at me on the water , spreadeagled on his back with his arms splayed . |
| 3 | Their prey this morning was Lawn House , lying just below it on the hillside . |
| 4 | and er I said you 've al also told me that Sue said there 's no way she 's going out with him on the at forty I said that 's only two years away . |
| 5 | As she knelt there , with Fand lying quietly before her on the beach , nothing else seemed to matter much . |
| 6 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 7 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
| 8 | He was quite prepared to hail this as a ‘ great film ’ , for if critics were prepared to lavish that term ‘ on any half-chewed jumble of stills that comes in from abroad , then I am in favour of loosening up with it on the home front ’ . |
| 9 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 10 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 11 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 12 | Sergeant Kidd returned to his patrol car to answer the insistent calls coming through for him on the radio . |
| 13 | The tanker driver , Derrick Worrell from Bath told the coroner he saw the car coming straight at him on the wrong side of the white line . |
| 14 | The fading Argentine superstar said : ‘ Gascoigne is the one player I can see taking over from me on the world stage . ’ |
| 15 | Why are sitting right beside me on the phone ? |
| 16 | The hand under hers clenched on the settee cushion , his face went red , and his eyes flashed such vindictive rage for a moment that she thought he would hit her , then he controlled himself , sitting silently by her on the settee , until she felt his hand gradually relax . |