Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 3 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 4 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 5 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 6 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 7 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 8 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 9 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 10 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 11 | P.U.M.P. : ‘ Barabajagal ( Love Is Hot ) ’ ( Ultimate ) out of the ashes of the Junior Manson Slags arrives Aqua Marina , with her Purple Under Melted Pink getting down on the dancefloor with a hot and sultry Donovan song . |
| 12 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 13 | I went in and there 's Heidi oh well I 've just got all the script coming up on the screen and I 've just got so and so for you and I |
| 14 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 15 | Then Mr. Shelford makes his pathetic statement on referees clamping down on the high tackle . |
| 16 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 17 | Moore 's the guilty player Jochim had got away from him and unless the referee decides that there was another defender coming round on the cover there Moores could be in big trouble . |
| 18 | That 's a lot of light coming in on the back I think . |
| 19 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 20 | Emyr Lewis switches from blindside flanker to No 8 , with Perego taking over on the flank . |
| 21 | It was better than having your screenplay flopping back on the mat by return of post . |
| 22 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 23 | The pane of the old face turned , the long white hair fanning out on the pillow . |
| 24 | The window looking out on the yard and garden was magnificent , had twenty panes , each about 12 inches × 10 inches , a beautiful example of workmanship from the eighteenth century , the counterweighted sashes still working perfectly . |
| 25 | She sighs , and sometimes she hums a little , and then she is silent because she is standing by the window looking out on the yard and turning the rings on her finger round and round . |
| 26 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 27 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 28 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 29 | And then comes another machine ( or the previous one with a new attachment ) which sucks up all the nuts and any other loose debris lying around on the ground . |
| 30 | Taking a deep swallow of the wine , she glanced away , watching a large rigged sailboat as it glided by , packed with holidaymakers , distant strains of steel band music and laughter drifting over on the wind . |