Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It really was a quite extraordinary sight to see this giant Headmistress dangling the small boy high in the air and the boy spinning and twisting like something on the end of a string and shrieking his head off . |
| 2 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 3 | The man was alone ; he looked alternately towards the house and then down , as if searching for something on the dashboard . |
| 4 | The boy was stooping now , searching for something on the bank . |
| 5 | The key to being naturally beautiful is looking after yourself on the inside as well as the outside and that means eating healthily . |
| 6 | The French army included in the middle of the century over 50,000 foreigners , and still had over 40,000 serving in it on the eve of the Revolution . |
| 7 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 8 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 9 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 10 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 11 | A large bird , a crow as far as she could tell , flapped up from picking at something on the ground and wheeled away high above her . |
| 12 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 13 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 14 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 15 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 16 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 17 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 18 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 19 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 20 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 21 | He found the warehouse which corresponded to the number on the invoice lying beside him on the passenger seat and slowed the Golf to a halt in front of it . |
| 22 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 23 | Mother had long since given up remonstrating with us on the need to show respect and reverence towards our aunts , her sisters-in-law . |
| 24 | Occasionally she half hoped to see him again , she would find herself watching faces rising towards her on the escalator of the Tube and wonder what she would feel if one of those faces were suddenly to be his . |
| 25 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 26 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 27 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 28 | If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ? |
| 29 | She grasped his body , his hair , clinging to him on the brink of chaos . |
| 30 | You can not rely on the right questions coming to you on the spur of the moment . |