Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | FILM beauty Kim Basinger was in pain last night with a foot stress fracture — after pedalling too hard on an exercise bike in a Hollywood gym . |
| 2 | He should beware of presuming too far on the patience of the Prince of Gwynedd . ’ |
| 3 | The lower you duck and the harder F pulls back , the better chance there is of getting well forwards on the boom . |
| 4 | Rather , what I hope for is a linguistic universe in which people will accept that they must consider the alternatives and then make their own choices , instead of relying so heavily on authority — even some hypothetical feminist authority — to tell them what is acceptable or ‘ correct ’ linguistic usage . |
| 5 | Even if issues of social justice are ignored , the demographic evidence demonstrates the folly of relying so heavily on middle-aged women as informal carers . |
| 6 | If those boys in Karachi had found an 8 to hook on the scoreboard those 33 long winters ago , instead of rummaging fruitlessly about on all fours , the runs he sought on a misfield from the penultimate ball of the day would never have been attempted . |
| 7 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 8 | On the other hand , it has already been shown that the tawny owl produces higher levels of modification than other species ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ; Lowe , 1980 ) , so that caution is needed before generalizing too far on what owls do or do not do . |
| 9 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 10 | In focusing thus sharply on the question of the relation between religious faith and historical knowledge , Lessing put his finger on what was to prove a more or less permanently controversial topic in theology from his day to this . |
| 11 | Dobson ( 1955 , 1968 ) continues the tradition of his predecessor , Wyld , in focusing very closely on the history of ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 12 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 13 | In focusing so sharply on the literal meaning Andrew largely avoided the central issue for a Christian analyst of the Old Testament : in what ways was its interpretation affected by the life of Christ and the establishment of the Christian Church ? |
| 14 | Far from focusing more tightly on issues , many of the Ham & High 's key stories have been taken up by the nationals . |
| 15 | Most importantly , they have demonstrated that the late medieval church was functioning effectively , and that historians have been misguided in relying too heavily on the testimony of condescending sixteenth-century intellectuals like Erasmus who were so hostile towards superstitious and non-biblical religion , while ignoring the perspective of the contemporary rural parishioners , who participated happily in this type of unsophisticated religious life and seemingly gained great spiritual comfort from the various rituals of the liturgical year . |
| 16 | ‘ And … and I certainly would n't have answered them , even if I had ! ’ she told him fiercely before spinning quickly around on her heels and beginning to walk rapidly away down the street . |
| 17 | Without dwelling too long on the masculine side , the natural tendency of the male to ‘ beam out ’ light is actually a passive one ; he does it without thinking . |
| 18 | Although the terms of your contract are therefore highly relevant , you should be careful about relying too heavily on what has been agreed in the past as grounds for objecting to a new order . |
| 19 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | The Substitute hid the faintest of smiles by drawing very deliberately on his cigar . |
| 21 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 22 | It was the Foreign Office 's reluctance to upset the entente with France by pressing too hard on the Congo issue which first convinced Morel of the baneful effects of traditional diplomacy , and provoked him to develop a coherent critique of what he later called ‘ the intrigues and imbecilities of professional diplomats . ’ |
| 23 | When you put the board in the water to launch , punch the board through any advancing waves by pushing hard forwards on the rig with one or both hands on the mast . |
| 24 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 25 | Where the opponent does not advance on to your kick , you should generate extra range and power by sliding forwards slightly on the supporting leg as the kicking knee rises . |