Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Bosses at Toys R Us , which has been opening on Sundays for more than a year , say the extra day is a definite boost to sales .
2 Your article also reported that a record number of stores are opening on Sundays in the lead-up to Christmas .
3 It is supported by the Keep Sunday Special campaign but falls far short of the deregulation called for by many large stores currently opening on Sundays in breach of existing laws .
4 On a fine mid-morning , the water at Sconser is glowingly clear , a kind of northern coral sea , and with boats bobbing on moorings near the back-gardens of their owners ' cottages ; a few lobster pots , a net drying in the light sunshine .
5 Four young men were appearing on chargers of peddling drugs , an old lady had had her hand chopped off whilst attempting to retain her purse , containing just two and eightpence , and a motorway to end all motorways was proposed which would wipe out six particularly exquisite villages and several hundred miles of countryside .
6 And sh excuse me but what I do not want happening on records of achievement as regards cos we are totally honest and I could name a school not too far from us
7 She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town .
8 I did , but I , I do n't get everything up if it I 'm not knocking on doors for it .
9 The gas and electricity companies suffer from the scourge of meter-reading and despite 3m unemployed still do n't seem to be able to find anybody to go round knocking on doors at times when anybody that works might actually be at home , and the water companies are moving to metering .
10 You do n't go round knocking on doors at the estate agent .
11 The company is based on a novel concept of direct selling , which involves representatives knocking on doors with catalogues and selling household goods on the back of it .
12 When Richard Denyer first began knocking on doors in the book publishing world , with the synopsis of a photographic essay on the Norfolk Broads in his hand , he found himself facing something of an image problem .
13 Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal .
14 It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye .
15 A theatre annual for 1791 , extolling the fine orchestra ( under La Houssaye ) of the new Italianate Theatre de Monsieur , claims that French ensembles ‘ want to be reassured by a donkey-stick [ guideâne ] ’ But these are shafts on behalf of Italian opéra as a whole , trading on memories of Rousseau 's ridicule and the mere fact that the Opéra was directed by a conducteur .
16 She told the tribunal that she had been pressured and bullied into working after commercial pressures forced Franlow to start trading on Sundays from May 1992 .
17 But because his value is limited to £1.5 million — another stipulation in the contract which first allowed him to move to Sampdoria — there is room for additional bonuses and signing on payments to be made available to him .
18 Breeds on freshwater lakes , nesting on cavities in cliffs , rocks , walls and ruined buildings ; in winter also on inshore waters .
19 Instead , our divorce courts spend their time checking on arrangements for children , and supervising battles over custody , access , maintenance , and the matrimonial home .
20 Increasingly , they have been linked to more nefarious activities , from cheating on taxes to financing cocaine traffickers .
21 They have been little fires , really , quickly doused , but they have been visible enough to consume the Interest of us club golfers , ever on the alert to condemn the game 's heroes for walking on feet of clay .
22 It was like walking on flints with bare feet , and her raw bones corroded inside her .
23 There are a number of flights of steps and visitors will be walking on catwalks above some of the processes .
24 There was summat about my head in the stars and walking on clouds in it .
25 If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice .
26 Access to their help , leaving aside the question of whether it employs a separate , distinct expertise , has usually meant passing on pupils from the classroom or the school .
27 Or it might consider itself a success if it can stop providers passing on increases in input prices in full without trying to reduce them by greater efficiency .
28 He 'll be running , batting in the nets and passing on tips to youngsters is an area in which he thrives and excels .
29 While posters are put up in prisons , it is ludicrous that there is no standard procedure for passing on details to prisoners ' wives .
30 Road pricing is inflationary : through demands for higher pay from car-users , and businesses passing on costs in prices .
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