Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were sharp as splinters , each stabbing on another 's wound . |
| 2 | And I put it down to having a fairly bad circulation and I 'm get getting my circulation back , using a product called and going on this er hair programme and my hair is beginning |
| 3 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 4 | Also Pear Tree roundabout , in all directions , particularly heading north , er from the A34 and continuing on that A43 up towards the Kidlington roundabout . |
| 5 | ‘ So he 's lyin' on top again/Just like Gepetto … ’ |
| 6 | But the bull was kneeling on Merry 's overcoat ; and that saved him ! |
| 7 | Proxy consent , decision making on another 's behalf , is well known to the law . |
| 8 | Town & Country Building Society is putting on 1.25 per cent to bring its mortgage rate to 14.75 per cent . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , I 'm sure it 's true because I 'd say my work on ‘ Keep The Faith ’ is my best playing on any Bon Jovi record to date . |
| 10 | Faced with the mounting cost of a war against the American colonies , the coalition government in Westminster had instituted a punitive and highly unpopular tax by the Stamp Act of October 1783 : all registrations of baptisms , marriages and burials would be charged at 3d. a time — and so there was every incentive for local clergy , working on 10 per cent commission , to get around the parish and bring in the strays . |
| 11 | As champion , he was banking on 80 per cent of the purse — around £6.7 million — for the fight in Las Vegas , but manager Frank Maloney claimed that promoter Don King was trying to force a 75-25 split . |