Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potters decorated cups with closely set vertical stripes , painting them on a wet slip , deliberately causing the edges to blur . |
| 2 | It is equally sensible for you , too , to be in membership of a trade union representing you on the appropriate negotiating body , and you are encouraged so to do . |
| 3 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 4 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 5 | If you have a problem with a friend , partner , child , colleague or neighbour , try meeting them on the inner planes before discussing the issue with them in person : |
| 6 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 7 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 8 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But you do n't do this with him , do you ? ’ he demanded , straddling her on the lumpy bed and thrusting into her . |
| 10 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 12 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 13 | This role will involve further service development of the factory deep cleaning service with the aim of promoting and selling it on a nationwide basis . |
| 14 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 15 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 16 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |
| 17 | Facing him on the other side of the arena was the current Executioner , whom Angel One had watched fighting and killing the previous holder of the office barely a week before . |
| 18 | Hendaye is not a town to dwell on , being easily outdone for charm by its partly walled Spanish equivalent of Fuenterrabia , facing it on a slight rise across the water . |
| 19 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 20 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 21 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 22 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 23 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |
| 24 | British Gas has admitted the meter reading mix up … blaming it on a clerical error . |
| 25 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 26 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 27 | We knew that sooner or later someone was going to buy it and there comes a point when , if something is going to add value for your shareholders , you should contemplate doing it on a hostile basis . ’ |
| 28 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 29 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 30 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |