Example sentences of "[pron] [v-ing] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 2 | There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up . |
| 3 | I would have done two doors I think , someone knocking on a door and but I do n't think anyone would have got it . |
| 4 | And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis . |
| 5 | She had walked into that café like someone landing on the moon , her eyes wide with wonder and alarm . |
| 6 | Why had she exposed herself to the danger of someone remarking on the likeness between her son and her escort , and making the obvious connection ? |
| 7 | I thought she must not like the idea of my going on the plane with her , then coming home every year laden with presents . |
| 8 | Me I going on the pot |
| 9 | There was someone moving on a hill in front of the house . |
| 10 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 11 | Er I I I he said that oh yes I do want to go down these stairs but there 's folks coming up and down and the esc you know , someone coming on the escalator . |
| 12 | The learner can not argue that he was being correctly supervised by someone standing on the footpath or in radio contact with him etc . |
| 13 | ROS : It 's someone playing on a pipe . |
| 14 | Best of all , perhaps , was his splendid spoonerism that came from an ambitious attempt to say of one player , ‘ He 's sticking out his bottom — like someone sitting on a shooting stick . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah actually , I 'd be interested if someone sitting on the planning committee , or perhaps a director erm , yeah or perhaps you could tell me , er , why why if the planning committee members are so concerned about this , did they grant the planning permission ? |
| 16 | I working on the training timber directly for horses , and then talk about cereal |
| 17 | To most academics , this sort of perspective seems perfectly natural , and they see nothing odd in someone working on a problem or book for years . |
| 18 | In examples ( h.7 ) and ( h.8 ) there is reference to someone working on an idea or being puzzled . |
| 19 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 20 | Captain Peter Young came with his men through a gap in the wire cut by shells from Kenya , with nobody stepping on a mine , although these were expected . |
| 21 | North , back in the Marines , found himself landing on a beach ; there facing him , with a rifle , was Calero . |
| 22 | it 's not so bad for somebody living on the south coast |
| 23 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 24 | One only has to look at the woodcuts of Henri II 's entry into Rouen in 1550 — which Mary very probably witnessed — to get a breath-taking impression of the splendour of royal pageantry , with the king himself riding on a chariot of immense size and grandeur , accompanied by heavily caparisoned elephants . |
| 25 | The baby went back to its yelling on the scullery floor . |
| 26 | ‘ You be careful , my dad 's a vicar ! ’ and the car had stopped and the man had sworn at him viciously , using some phrases Luke later regretted not remembering , and Luke found himself shaking on the dark verge a mile out of Snead . |
| 27 | He took a step back , dizzy and breathless , then found himself sitting on the floor , back to the wall . |
| 28 | When there is a Labour Government and the Leader of the House finds himself sitting on the Opposition Benches , that Administration will be gracious to the then Opposition . |
| 29 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 30 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |