Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bad Points : Rather expensive unless you are going to use it on a regular basis . |
| 2 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 3 | Damian said thickly , and strode towards her , ‘ My God , I 'm just going to throw you on the bloody bed and — ’ |
| 4 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
| 5 | Never daring to use them on a regular basis , they were placed inside a display cabinet for many years . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 7 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 8 | I 'm not trying to put them on an equal par , but later Maxwell erm Action Group were concerned with four hundred and eighty million disappearing . |
| 9 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |