Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony Waugh sawed his way through his neighbour 's stair bannister in Londonderry Road , Stockton , to release Sarah Walters , three , who had got herself trapped while playing on the steps . |
| 2 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 3 | I always use Langton watercolour paper , which I wash first so that no spots appear when laying on the colour . |
| 4 | It follows that , when reading the reports of studies such as this , it is essential to be clear about the choices that the researcher made when deciding on the population to be surveyed . |
| 5 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |
| 6 | Bees learn colour only in the final three seconds as they land : the colour visible to the bee before the landing sequence , the colours it sees while standing on the flower to feed and while circling the blossom before flying off , simply never register . |
| 7 | Deciding where a stitch pattern will be placed on a garment is just as important for successful knitwear designing as deciding on the shape and colours to be used . |
| 8 | Chemically , they differ considerably from morphine , but they can usually be seen to correspond to part of the morphine molecule , and are thus envisaged as acting on the same receptors . |
| 9 | Criticism connected to choices we have made — about restaurants , films , books to read — may be interpreted as reflecting on the person who made the choice or suggestion , though this may not be the critic 's intention . |
| 10 | He opened this and , from the darkness , picked up a long , narrow ladder , the type soldiers climb when scaling a castle wall , or a tiler might use when working on the roof of a house . |
| 11 | To meet the needs of the present , it seems to me that as much precision as possible is used when deciding on the application of a pesticide . |
| 12 | Such a scene can still be witnessed while standing on the quaint little hump-backed bridge opposite the mill . |
| 13 | Benjamin B'Hahn — whose father , Abel pioneered underwater births — fell while playing on the river bank two months ago . |
| 14 | Apart from being pressed , prodded , tapped and manipulated whilst lying on the bed , I was cardiographed , x-rayed , blood-tested and biologically examined in a series of walkabouts and strip consultations . |
| 15 | However , I found that my arm rested quite comfortably along the 44mm-thick body , allowing relaxed fingerstyle playing while resting on the neck-side of the pickup . |
| 16 | Forest Goblin shamans add +1 to their dice score when rolling on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart . |
| 17 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 18 | An employee had been electrocuted when working on the magnetron assembly line of the company 's Thornaby-on-Tees factory , which was engaged in another stage of the microwave oven manufacturing process , when he had come into contact with exposed conductors . |
| 19 | 3.1.2 to use the Trade Marks ( without amendment or addition ) in connection with the licenses granted under Clause 3.1.1 ( provided always that nothing in this Clause 3.1.2 shall be taken as conferring on the right to use the Trade Marks , exclusively or non-exclusively , other than in respect of the Licensed Products ) . |
| 20 | You will recall , however , that before you vanished from our lives you entrusted me with the notes you had kept while working on the Big Glass and the Green Box , telling me I could do what I liked with them , and adding , in your usual sensitive way , that I could always use them to wipe my arse if the paper decided to sack me and I found myself really hard up . |
| 21 | Even where the only ‘ standard ’ terms of the seller are those in the exemption clause itself , still a buyer whose contract includes that exemption clause could well be regarded as buying on the seller 's ‘ written standard terms of business . ’ |
| 22 | He answered the second question , which he considered as turning on the effect of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , by concluding that the council had a cause of action in libel against the defendants on the basis of the pleaded statement of claim . |