Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
| 2 | Well , it 's good to be back on the list and catching up on the mountain of messages . |
| 3 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 4 | Your boyfriend certainly has a communication problem and walking out on an argument is very immature . |
| 5 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 6 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 7 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 8 | I will be staying for the weekend and going back on the train on Sunday night . |
| 9 | He would come down soon anyway and say he was all right and going out on the moor again . |
| 10 | Gould remembers following the driver and lying down on the floor of the car face down , waiting for the ambush to pass . |
| 11 | The authorities also drafted regulations to circumscribe public activity in Tiananmen Square itself , which included the prohibition of any memorial activity and of " joking and playing , sitting and lying down on the ground " . |
| 12 | And riding along on the crest of the A 48 , join us in part two . |
| 13 | However , at the end of 1981 a new superintendent instituted changes which included moving a number of the area 's community police-officers to other duties and clamping down on the activities by local youths which had previously been tolerated . |
| 14 | Before the hoist came to a halt , the Twins were up and out of it , hopping lightly ashore and closing in on the woman , one either side of her . |
| 15 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 16 | And coming up on the rails in the first division are Oxford United . |
| 17 | You 're on the main part of the carriageway , and coming in on the left there is this traffic coming down a slip road to join you . |
| 18 | and we 're , we 're going on the Friday afternoon and coming back on the Monday afternoon . |
| 19 | In fact obesity can be effectively reversed by eating more brad and cutting down on the amounts of butter , margarine and oil we eat , and taking some exercise . |
| 20 | Yesterday the Bank of England raised around £3 billion by getting up early and cashing in on the market 's victory leap . |
| 21 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 22 | By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders . |
| 23 | Well the answer is yes but of course landing and taking off on a road is one thing , being able to operate is another one because clearly one needs er fuel , weapons , ground crew and the like but landing on a road in itself is is not difficult . |
| 24 | Then , to Perdita 's squirming embarrassment , he replayed the clip of her rowing with the umpire three times , freezing the frame of her yelling with her mouth wide open , until her teammates were howling with laughter and rolling round on the floor . |
| 25 | ‘ God preserve me from foolish and deceitful women , ’ he said , letting her hair go and falling back on the pillow , his arms raised angrily above his head . |
| 26 | Cover the pan with a cloth — to prevent steam from condensing on the cover of the pan and falling back on the curd — and the lid , and leave it for two to four hours , until the curd is fairly firm . |
| 27 | ‘ Not , ’ said Lydia under her breath and falling back on the cliché , ‘ if I see you first . ’ |
| 28 | I suspect the answer lies in the demographic changes of the 1980s , which showed a substantial and unexpected in-migration to Scotland , on the same scale and pattern as the ‘ incomers ’ to Wales who were selling off expensive property in south east England and settling down on the proceeds . |
| 29 | Ace woke at once , drawing her gun and spinning about on the carpeting of plaster chips and glass fragments , searching for the source and target . |
| 30 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |