Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 2 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Also hanging on the back of the door was the hot water-bottle that his Mum filled for him when he had tonsilitis . |
| 6 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 7 | Peering through the kitchen window she could see the remains of three breakfasts and her daughter 's new green coat hanging on the back of the kitchen door . |
| 8 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 9 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |
| 10 | From the top drawer of her chest-of-drawers she took a pad and went to fetch her biro from the handbag hanging on the back of the door . |
| 11 | Just to see his silk dressing-gown hanging on the back of the door or his watch lying on the edge of the basin , stirred an unfathomable excitement in her . |
| 12 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 13 | In the late afternoon , with the red sun setting and the dust from the caravans crossing the plain hanging on the air , the whole edifice looked like a monolith rising out of the depths of a brooding red sea . |
| 14 | Squeeze your fist … study the feelings of tension this creates … learn what it is like now to have this experience of tension in the fist … [ after approximately five seconds ] … and now relax … let go of all the tension just allow your fingers to fall with gravity … you may experience a slight tingling effect as the muscles relax … feel the fingers and hand becoming heavier and heavier … feeling as though someone has just placed a glove made of lead on your hand … causing the whole hand to feel heavy , heavy as lead … the muscles sinking down dead weight hanging on the bones of the hand … |
| 15 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 16 | ‘ If I did , ’ Mandeville snapped , ‘ the murderer would be hanging on the gibbet at Smithfield ! ’ |
| 17 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 18 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 19 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 20 | Like to catch something that was hanging on the tree , no one would catch it and hang there . |
| 21 | ‘ Odd place to go , ’ Amanda had said , hanging on the rail . |
| 22 | ‘ By this time I had waited about 15 minutes hanging on the phone and the clerk had not confirmed any booking . ’ |
| 23 | Hanging on the hours like heliotropes |
| 24 | ‘ To this end we are pursuing NAMAS accreditation with all due speed and determination and expect to have the certificate hanging on the way by August 1993 . ’ |
| 25 | So the whole weight of the whole er the gear that actually sent the crusher going and made it so the jaws the swing jaw swing and all that , was er hanging on the cap you see . |
| 26 | Hanging on the door is a dressing gown and in the wardrobe a change of clothes given to her when she arrived in the refuge with only the clothes she stood up in and a shopping bag . |
| 27 | There was a small mirror hanging on the door in which she combed her hair ; a woman liked to look her best even at work . |
| 28 | There was a dining-room , its vast table formed of two carved stone pillars supporting a smoked-glass top , and there was a bedroom with a display of silver-topped toilet jars , and a fragile lacy négligé hanging on the door . |
| 29 | Suddenly the memory of the négligé hanging on the door in Luke 's house and Elise 's painting in the corridor outside his room struck a chill . |
| 30 | The clothes , the buildings , the pitch and intonation of voices speaking Amharic ; the smell of rancid butter , of red peppers and burning cow dung that permeated the town ; the packs of savage dogs that roamed the streets and whose howling rose and fell through the night ; an occasional corpse hanging on the gallows-tree ; beggars who had lost a hand or foot for theft ; debtors and creditors wandering round chained together ; strings of donkeys bringing in firewood ; caravans of mules ; the crowded market where men and women squatted on the ground , selling earthen pots , lengths of cloths , skins , cartridges , bars of salt , silver ornaments , heaps of grain , vegetables , beer — all this combined to create a scene and an atmosphere unlike any other in the world . |