Example sentences of "[v-ing] on some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be like traveling on some airlines I could name . |
| 2 | ‘ Just checking on some things . |
| 3 | There is a risk of icy patches forming on some roads towards the morning . |
| 4 | probably yeah , they 've gone outside though Ah I was gon na say to you if you get us all going on some aerobics |
| 5 | According to a simple version of the adaptive expectations hypothesis , the expected rate of inflation is revised each period by adding on some proportion ( say , w ) of the observed error in the previous period , where w lies between zero and one . |
| 6 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 7 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 8 | And in focusing on some problem areas it 's possible to fail to give an impression of the enormous privilege it is to serve the church and her lord in social responsibility . |
| 9 | The other day it occurred to me that there are maybe two kinds of intelligence in the world : one that 's very open , that tries to take on everything , and accordingly gets paralysed by choice : another kind that 's narrow , that finds strength focusing on some things and excluding most everything else … |
| 10 | SPENDING ON some areas of the National Health Service could be downgraded in Labour 's list of priorities as a result of the leadership 's determination to make the productive economy the centrepiece of the party 's programme for government . |
| 11 | It is exactly because of that level of variance and because we considered er that multiple cautioning on some occasions , I think on the figures I have examined about six percent of occasions , er were unjustifiable that we have reviewed our policy . |
| 12 | Stocking on some fen commons took place no earlier than old May Day , to ensure against overgrazing . |
| 13 | ‘ Clay [ he never called him Ali beeg now , ’ Sonny once said , while gnawing on some ribs . |
| 14 | She was still at the counter , shaking on some vinegar , when , through the steamy window , she thought she saw Simon , leaning against one of those big , concrete litter bins on the other side of the street . |
| 15 | Who said and on which occasion : ‘ In church on Sunday it was lovely , and the sun was coming through the stained glass window and falling on some flowers . |
| 16 | Quickly putting on some clothes , he decided to investigate . |
| 17 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 18 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 19 | Touch legering means , quite simply , that you hold the line and feel for bites instead of relying on some kind of visual indication . |
| 20 | In particular , can Poulantzas explain specific conjunctures and the shifting relations between classes without tacitly relying on some sort of volun-tarism ? |
| 21 | ‘ The assassin must have been lying on the ground or Father standing on some steps ? |
| 22 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 23 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 24 | She was at the clinic when it was delivered , working on some case notes . |
| 25 | I am either out at the moment or busy working on some scripts and do n't want to talk right now . |
| 26 | On arrival , she was distressed to find only Jock Hallett working on some papers . |
| 27 | I was working on some shoes on the table , and Will picked one up and looked at it . |
| 28 | Greg was working on some kind of deal in Italy not long before he … before the accident . |
| 29 | The things like a case study where you have to gather lots of information and analyze it , I mean that 's just what the reflectors like , cos they want to feel that there 's you know they th working is not just it 's actually working on some fact . |
| 30 | A pattern recogniser working on some form of segmentation relies on the fact that the input script contains all the necessary characters correctly formed . |