Example sentences of "on which [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one solicitor ( Williams 1973 ) wrote , ‘ did these eminent bodies have the slightest idea of the nature of the delicate area on which they were trampling with their feet ? ’ |
| 2 | Zoe Hartley , 13 , of Send , near Ripley , Surrey , died yesterday after being thrown from a motorcycle on which she was riding as a pillion passenger near her home . |
| 3 | He was delayed by an accident to the Imperial Airways ' HP.42 on which he was flying on the Kisumu-Cairo-Karachi sector . |
| 4 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |
| 5 | CD regarded as his ‘ masterpiece ’ the Transfiguration , the great altar-piece on which he was working at the time of his death ; but found his Incendo del Borgo , one of the frescos ( designed by Raphael but painted by collaborators ) in the Stanze of the Vatican , an ‘ incredible caricature ’ . |
| 6 | In any case , whatever machines are at my disposal , the simple movable table on which I am leaning in the photograph will still be where the first hand-written draft is composed . |