Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I could feel the blast on my back as I was pitched forward , landing face down on the ground unable to move and gasping for breath . |
| 2 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 3 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 4 | Bleating bookies are still refusing to pay out on the bets while Bola make their inquiries . |
| 5 | Candidates include : the inability or unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to stem the banking panic and maintain the money supply ; the failure to use fiscal policy intelligently ( up to and including Franklin Roosevelt 's New Deal after 1933 ) ; the uses and abuses of the gold standard ( Britain deciding to go back on the gold standard in 1925 at the pre-1914 parity , then deciding to come off the standard altogether in 1931 ; the refusal of many countries , especially America , to follow gold-standard rules ) ; the outbreak of trade war sparked by America 's Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930 ; and so on . |
| 6 | We all knew then that he was n't going to miss out on the Cup final for all the world . |
| 7 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 8 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 9 | " I 'm going to walk out on the street , " Braden said . |
| 10 | With a slash of the knife he remembers when he was twelve , lying face down on the landing , watching and listening to his parents arguing about him and his future . |
| 11 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 12 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 13 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 14 | She was next aware of dimly seeing her father lying face down on the path , his hands bent up behind him and Richard with one knee on his back . |
| 15 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 16 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 17 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 18 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 19 | Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table . |
| 20 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 21 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 22 | Because you 're probably doubling doubling up on the recording . |
| 23 | Filth , dust , pollution , children getting run over on the roads , road traffic . |
| 24 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 25 | But Tommy Johnson is aiming to step back on the goal trail . |
| 26 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 27 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 28 | Having missed out on the runners-up spot in the league by just one point , this cup final victory is a successful note on which to end the season . |
| 29 | The blame was placed squarely on the United States for having gone back on the Moscow agreement and on the basis worked out by Marshall and Molotov for renewing the meetings of the Joint Commission . |
| 30 | The Exiles are bristling to get back on the scene and currently lie third in the Division Four South , tucked in behind Havant and Basingstoke . |