Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 2 | This may well have been the aircraft seen to crash , and although Kennett and Waghorn were credited posthumously with a Ju88 probably destroyed , this could well have been their victim , no Ju88s being reported missing on this date . |
| 3 | He phoned his provincial headquarters at Cesena , who called regional headquarters at Bologna , who checked with their opposite numbers in Florence before confirming that no member of the force had been reported missing on either side of the Apennines . |
| 4 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 5 | Cost saving on this scale is particularly important in videodisc applications because videodiscs and their workstations are costly . |
| 6 | Dad was a regular churchgoer himself , a sidesman , so it just would not do for him to be seen working on such a special day in the Church Calendar . |
| 7 | This is a hallowed statement signifying that the terms set out are nothing more than an intention and will not become binding on any party until a formal contract has been negotiated , executed and exchanged . |
| 8 | Inside we were greeted by the sight of a gaggle of top-heavy Sikhs energetically bopping around the hall to 1970s disco music ; beautiful Hindu ladies lilted delicately from side to side trying to avoid stepping on each other 's saris . |
| 9 | If children are beaten with a stick by their parents when they transgress , he suggests that they will tend to avoid transgressing on those occasions when their actions are not concealed from their parents . |
| 10 | Well , in fact I did n't know , not for certain , but I could n't see any signs at all of brassière straps or elastic waistbands which I had n't been able to help noticing on all other women . |
| 11 | For example , if you start your period every 23 to 32 days , you should count forward 11 days and begin testing on that day . |
| 12 | Instantly the wheels begin turning on this deal , my enthusiasm wanes . |
| 13 | So long as the fish enjoy feeding on this natural food , it is worth continuing the practice . |
| 14 | The tormented troubadour lets rip in Glasgow with God Machine supporting on all three nights . |
| 15 | How much weight do you remember losing on each , and for how long did it stay off ? |
| 16 | Total investment , which includes spending on all types of capital goods by firms , accounts for about a fifth of total expenditure in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | ( c ) About 9+ ( RA ) — an ability to make substitutions which demonstrate cueing on all three levels . |
| 18 | I could n't see the washing when I come out of Googie 's and I said I 've got washing on that line and I said I ca n't see no there ai n't no washing on that line . |
| 19 | From that day , early in the October of 1845 , she began drawing on all their outlying accounts and amassing the money with Chambers . |
| 20 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 21 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 22 | ‘ Will you stop harping on that ? ’ |
| 23 | I did n't suggest coming on this heap of a boat to work like a house-servant , is n't that right , Robbie ? ’ |
| 24 | SALVO began campaigning on these issues in 1989 . |
| 25 | Existing Golf diesels are sold out , and the first 1992 models with the new larger body in right-hand-drive form began arriving on this side of the Channel last month . |
| 26 | ‘ I can not stop working on this just because it is dangerous . |
| 27 | I remember working on that one and I did it because all this lot was a , . |
| 28 | I I remember working on some of the of the paperwork involved in it . |
| 29 | She soon started appearing on such television classics as Doctor Who and Dixon of Dock Green . |
| 30 | ‘ Palmer & Pearson ? ’ she queried , and discounted that at once because until things started moving on that contract there were no problems . |