Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 11 a.m. the bombardment intensified to the point where Campana could count the shells raining down on two neighbouring companies at a rate of five a minute . |
| 2 | We have the mayor bugging out on this , Scott . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My Enrico , he is covered with blood looking down on pretty Lisa , lying on her bed of blood . |
| 4 | He kept his eyes fixed on the crest of the hill over which she would appear freewheeling down on her bicycle , black hair streaming and her long skirt ballooning out on either side like a bat 's wings . |
| 5 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 6 | Now news of live football coming up on Central in the new season . |
| 7 | I think there 's a day of action coming up on this sort of D I Y stuff . |
| 8 | Mr Salem said there was an enormous increase in French , Dutch and Spanish shoppers cashing in on favourable exchange rates . |
| 9 | Heseltine : " British industry missing out on environmental opportunities " |
| 10 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 11 | It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business . |
| 12 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 13 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 14 | This central area of the town — Hillgate , Millgate , the Underbanks , all names attested in the 15th century — does however retain both the medieval street plan and something of a medieval atmosphere , because of the narrow , twisting , hilly streets and the buildings crowding in on one another . |
| 15 | The day flew by so quickly that I hardly noticed evening stealing in on crimson wings . |
| 16 | He had more cream on his hair than the Scottish Dairies , and sidelocks swooping down on either side of a pasty jowl . |
| 17 | The advance party has now returned to base camp to spend a few days feeding up on military rations of sausage and beans and chocolate and pear ready for the final push . |
| 18 | I saw Shutt cropping up on some other team 's score sheet . |
| 19 | If Berger took the lead into the first corner , then Senna would have difficulty getting by on such a tight and twisting circuit . |
| 20 | Monday 8.55am — I arrive at the office for what looks like a quiet day catching up on necessary office work and telephoning some of our low-dependency clients to see how they are . |
| 21 | Okay Leslie , thank you , a lot of calls coming through on this one . |
| 22 | A lot of calls coming through on this . |
| 23 | Apart from the problem of dealing with large numbers of frightened refugees , there was also an election coming up on 10 May , and the political factions in the town were anxious that nothing should interfere with it , so there was a concerted effort to play down the possible risk . |
| 24 | I suppose a woman speaking out on this issue might appear slightly inelegant . |
| 25 | It 's so they can open the door behind them , the passengers getting in on that side of the road . |
| 26 | The grittiness of the coal smoke coming down on those gaunt January afternoons was still in her nostrils . |
| 27 | This is a difficult trick to bring off with suburban trains hurtling by on one side and lorries grinding through their gears on the other . |
| 28 | Thus , in times of slack demand it is not uncommon to find managements tightening up on industrial discipline . |
| 29 | We were all set up for it in Britain : a Labour government anti-nuclear movement swinging along on borrowed money with Carnaby Street and the Beatles — they were going to bring World Peace all by themselves — fat dumb and happy . |
| 30 | To obtain the best possible tone and depth from such a small driver and cab , Trace 's engineers spent three months researching various designs of enclosure , eventually settling on a kind of reverse flare , with the inner front panel of the cabinet curving in on each side to channel the sound of the rear mounted speaker through a central , vertical slot , 11″ ( 28.5cm ) high x 1″ ( 3.5cm ) wide . |