Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 2 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 3 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 4 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 5 | He sprang out of the car and was banging on the front door . |
| 6 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 7 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 8 | The sound of Freddie the Nark banging on the small iron gate reverberated along the silent turning and Billy Sullivan winced . |
| 9 | They could be banging on the outside doors right now , and he would n't hear a thing . |
| 10 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 11 | Poor little Willie was fairly screaming the place down and banging on the barred window that separated him so carefully from the world . |
| 12 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 13 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 14 | Annie must have been tired , but she drove quickly and cleverly , overtaking on the narrow road when she could and leaving Ellwood stranded . |
| 15 | He was abreast with the lorry when I saw the oncoming small black car overtaking on the other side , and overtaking fast . |
| 16 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 17 | Obviously having only played a couple of gigs , including Radio City ( New York and appearing on The Grammy Awards , their inexperience showed . |
| 18 | The way people had responded to it had been very encouraging , with news bulletins showing Sheila 's appeal and a photograph of the vigil even appearing on the front page of the Daily Telegraph . |
| 19 | He has also fought in vain against the Queen 's head appearing on the new $5 bill . |
| 20 | There you had ‘ Doyler ’ appearing on the Late Late with his two wives . |
| 21 | Note that the G appearing on the right-hand side of ( 7.16 ) is the usual gravitational constant and not some contraction of a tensor . |
| 22 | In each set there were 16 trigrams appearing on the left and 16 trigrams appearing on the right . |
| 23 | In each set there were 16 words appearing on the left and 16 words appearing on the right . |
| 24 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 25 | For the majority , an increasing casualness caused a crisis in the tie industry as young men discarded the item worn by their fathers even for digging the garden or carving the Sunday roast ; the latter simultaneously appearing on the endangered species list too , but as victim of inflation rather than fashion . |
| 26 | ‘ And I want to stick close to the TARDIS , ’ Ace said , appearing on the stripped-down rear platform . |
| 27 | Then the Brownies realised what terrible danger would lie in wait for the pilot of the plane if he should try to make an emergency landing on the wide , green , treeless tract of the swamp , which looked like solid ground but was n't . |
| 28 | As we pulled into the jetty , they were flying all around and landing on the grassy slopes . |
| 29 | She searched for a word … ‘ security ’ — and settled on it gratefully like a butterfly landing on the only flower left in a field . |
| 30 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |