Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] [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 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 4 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 5 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |
| 6 | The same can probably be claimed for those who for reasons which had little to do with humanitarian concern — fearing Jewish revenge in the event of a lost war , or blaming Hitler for bringing on the war through attacking the Jews , attitudes which of course themselves betrayed the influence of Nazi ‘ Jewish conspiracy ’ propaganda — were voicing criticism of Nazi anti Jewish policy . |
| 7 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 8 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She checks her appearance in a mirror hanging on a tree . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As was quite normal in those days Robert Burrows kept a strap hanging on a hook at the end of the dining table . |
| 17 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 18 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 19 | The man went to a jacket hanging on a nail in the corner , and Produced a used envelope with pencilled writing on the outside . |
| 20 | There 's an apron hanging on a nail . |
| 21 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | And as I arrive at the university , Martin Stephenson is well into a meandering anecdote about Hoovers , the capacity audience hanging on every word as he does what he does best . |
| 25 | He sensed a wave of excitement among the people behind him as the audience kept silent , hanging on every word . |
| 26 | She hesitated , looking at her mother , who was hanging on every word , then at Wycliffe . |
| 27 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 28 | ‘ Sometimes , when there are three thousand people hanging on every note , I find myself wishing they were all stood at the bar and facing the other way . |
| 29 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 30 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |