Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 2 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 3 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 4 | Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look . |
| 5 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 6 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 7 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 8 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 9 | Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench . |
| 10 | Hoomey pushed the front seat up and leaned over , groping about on the back seat . |
| 11 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 12 | It is built across the Via Sacra at its summit , looking down on the Forum Romanum . |
| 13 | Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup |
| 14 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 15 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 16 | And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they 'd be all the members there . |
| 17 | The section then dived down to attack , Yellow I ( Jeffries ) going in on the starboard quarter and I dived down and made a quarter-astern attack from below , opening fire at 400 yards and closing to 50 yards , giving the e/a three bursts of three seconds each . |
| 18 | They chuck all these people out of mental hospitals on the excuse that everyone in the community is spontaneously going to start looking after them — and surprise , surprise , they start turning up on the night shelter circuit . |
| 19 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 20 | Since growing up on the Norfolk coast he has painted from landscape . |
| 21 | Herself , lying back on the punt cushions . |
| 22 | Are you going out on the razzle dazzle ? |
| 23 | Well you 're not going out on the razzle dazzle . |
| 24 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 25 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 26 | Across the nave from this chapel , hanging up on the w wall , is something looking very like an old chicken-bone . |
| 27 | Eight miles , starting easily , speeding up on the way home |
| 28 | Frank sat in the back of Armstrong , occasionally kneeling up on the rumble seat so he could yell in my ear , but all the time talking . |
| 29 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 30 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |