Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | By 1980 the operation was clearly prospering , bringing in on average £2500 per week in the second half of the year . |
| 2 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 3 | Starting with a spectacular seizure of thousands of leading brand products , the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has begun cracking down on misleading food labelling . |
| 4 | Thames valley police are cracking down on bad driving . |
| 5 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 6 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 31 adopted legislation cracking down on black-market trading in the period of transition to a market economy . |
| 7 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 8 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 9 | Perdita , however , was excitedly looking down on vast faded pink rivers curling through spinach-green forest , and the blue shadow of their plane lying across Buenos Aires . |
| 10 | ‘ My Enrico , he is covered with blood looking down on pretty Lisa , lying on her bed of blood . |
| 11 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 12 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 13 | Is , is , is that different to any other land law before , is well is , is this a new idea or is it just picking up on other |
| 14 | And as if the elements were ganging up on defenceless human beings , half the neighbourhood around the bridge was woken up at 3 o'clock on the morning of Sunday , 10 March by shouts of ‘ Fire ! ’ as a stable next to Sheppards ' workshops went up in flames . |
| 15 | Brushing up on dental hygiene |
| 16 | We might indulge in ‘ feeling guilty ’ about having a lazy Sunday in bed , splashing out on new clothes , making love , eating a large slice of chocolate gateau with lashings of cream , and other completely harmless and enjoyable experiences ! |
| 17 | Most shoppers were splashing out on practical items and steering clear of the luxury goods , he said . |
| 18 | Certainly there is Biblical precedent for splashing out on special occasions — Martha 's anointing of Jesus with the expensive ointment could easily be used as a justification for spraying around a little champagne to hansel a special occasion . |
| 19 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
| 20 | Dragons can lie for dark centuries brooding over their treasures , bedding down on frozen flames that will never see the light of day . |
| 21 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 22 | While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends . |
| 23 | Does the growing up on fragile ice create , if you like , metaphorical value in your cancer work ? |
| 24 | And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ? |
| 25 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 26 | Had Innocent III wished — and the evidence is to the contrary — there would have been no going back on previous policy . |
| 27 | ‘ She comes out in the boat with me when I 'm going round on other jobs . ’ |
| 28 | At other times , the demands of his body clock and society coincided but then much of his time would be spent catching up on lost sleep . |
| 29 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 30 | Monday 8.55am — I arrive at the office for what looks like a quiet day catching up on necessary office work and telephoning some of our low-dependency clients to see how they are . |