Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 2 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 3 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 4 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 5 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 6 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
| 7 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 8 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 9 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 10 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 11 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 12 | Kneeling down on the dusty pavement , she made as if to tie her shoelaces . |
| 13 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 14 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 15 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 16 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 17 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 18 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 19 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 20 | Turn right into er what is a very busy er road in any event at that time but that the dangers is that many drivers are becoming impatient with waiting their turn in the queue and what they 're doing is driving down on the wrong side of the road in order to utilise a little back road that 's a service road which runs alongside road and leads into Nightingale avenue . |
| 21 | Altogether appropriately and ingloriously , the frame ended with the Barometer 's in-off the black , the ball lasering in on the middle pocket at a preposterous angle . |
| 22 | The stool was built into the set and was triggered by pressing down on the foot-rest . |
| 23 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 24 | It could be a break , this is the bone here , supposing there is a break there , pressing down on the brain , that is a head injury , this part here is the bolt by the way and that is a injury to the bolt of the brain , just the top . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 27 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the other hand , cracking down on the rebels could widen the fissures within the army and encourage disgruntled officers to plot more coups . |
| 30 | Now that the EC is cracking down on the ozone-depleting solvents used in dry-cleaning processes , you could face problems . |