Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kneeling down on a soft surface , the patient may practise trunk movements using the gymnastic ball to support his arms and shoulders , while the physiotherapist controls the balance of his pelvis . |
| 2 | ‘ Muscling in on a theatrical invitation . |
| 3 | Winding up on a voluntary basis |
| 4 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 5 | What happens is this : it is swimming along on a near-horizontal plane when it spots a morsel of food , which it can see quite comfortably directly below it in shallow-enough water because its eyes are tilted downwards to allow for this facility . |
| 6 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 7 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 8 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 9 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 10 | Mercifully , these days , it 's easier to avoid costly mistakes by splashing out on a large bottle of something which is transformed into ‘ Eau de Old Socks ’ by your skin 's individual chemistry : if you ask politely in department stores , many perfume houses gladly hand out miniature sample vials of their wares , enabling you to make up your mind away from the high-pressure squirtings of over-zealous tester-bottle-wielders . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's stay here tonight , Angel , ’ said Tess , lying down on a flat stone which was still warm from the day 's sunshine . |
| 12 | They left things to us and we were rushing along on a supercharged train with no brakes . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sun is going off on a separate direction . |
| 14 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 15 | We 're going out on a early February to do whatsername Rodney from Only Fools and Horses . |
| 16 | Never looks good going out on a falling tide . |
| 17 | In the year to 3 June pre-tax profits were C$6.5m ( £3.2m ) , which implies that WH Smith is selling out on a premium multiple of 18 times Canadian earnings . |
| 18 | As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface . |
| 19 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 20 | Swooping in on a spilled pass he gathered one-handed on the run for the winners ' fourth try , one that Rees just failed to convert . |
| 21 | ‘ When , one month after German monetary union , East Germany 's state run economy showed signs of breaking down on a massive scale , Chancellor Kohl … called in the top bankers of the land . |
| 22 | It is time to look more closely at the imperative for which we have so far been getting along on a rough formulation , ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 23 | The Wire-haired Dachshund has a distinctive ‘ beard ’ which needs combing out on a daily basis . |
| 24 | ‘ By riding out on a white charger and rescuing her niece ? ’ |
| 25 | Cathy when I was in hospital in er a physiotherapy bit , where they , where they brought children in , erm there was this little girl and like she was riding round on a little bike , you know , so she 's quite , quite old and she had er , in , in brace , but her legs were like out at the side and her feet were pointing down and they 're pointing up , I 'm just a bit confused . |
| 26 | They were in a similar position to the person coming along on a standby basis for an airline seat as against the passenger paying a full fare , and without the full rights of a standby passenger , in the sense that the decision whether or not to accommodate them in the college was entirely discretionary . |
| 27 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've got someone coming in on a blue light , a young man who 's fallen under a train . |
| 29 | I 'd like to take up a couple of points if I may about getting some erm we were talking before mentioned children coming in on a regular basis er it 's called living . |
| 30 | But quite clearly this is a more expensive use of beds in residential establishments , when people simply come in for a matter of days or week or two weeks , rather than coming in on a permanent basis . |