Example sentences of "[v-ing] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 2 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 3 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 4 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 5 | The pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room , where a woman 's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds . |
| 6 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 7 | She checks her appearance in a mirror hanging on a tree . |
| 8 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 9 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 10 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 11 | There was a gas boiler , comparatively modern , mounted above a deep square porcelain sink much stained and with a clean but crumpled tea towel hanging on a hook beside it . |
| 12 | As was quite normal in those days Robert Burrows kept a strap hanging on a hook at the end of the dining table . |
| 13 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 14 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 15 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 16 | There 's an apron hanging on a nail . |
| 17 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 18 | Second , hanging on a peg is a black robe with a monogrammed ‘ D ’ which , if put on by anyone other than Drachenfels himself , wraps itself about the unfortunate wearer and attacks with tiny mouths in its lining ; it gets 2D6 Attacks at S 2 each round . |
| 19 | Ross 's experience struck an identical chord with me , for John Sheard and I had exactly the same experience on the first ascent of Face Route where the second , hanging on a sling to remove gear , was observed by a member of the establishment and a rumour immediately started that was rapidly translated into guidebook writer 's ‘ fact ’ . |
| 20 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 21 | The film sticks to the standard Bo plot — older man ( Anthony Quinn ) lusts comically after her body — but with Bo cracking on a bit , the stakes have had to be raised a bit . |
| 22 | Paul battered John after going on a night of ‘ louting ’ . |
| 23 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 24 | A load of schoolchildren going on a day out . |
| 25 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 26 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 27 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 28 | We 're all going on a Summer holiday for a week or two me and you |
| 29 | It is rather like someone switching on a cassette in one room and then walking into another . |
| 30 | Can a chimp perceive a movie as representing a second individual trying to solve a problem , like reaching bananas or switching on a heater ? |