Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it 's making a bed , building a skyscraper or landing a man on the moon , the lesson is the same . |
| 2 | Go on any Earth Mysteries trip to an ancient site and it is highly likely that you will see at least one person walking holding wire rods or holding a weight on the end of a piece of string . |
| 3 | Buying a taxi-licence in New York or buying a seat on the stock exchange in many countries would be examples of this type of investment . |
| 4 | Some people think that holding the wing down or putting a tyre on the wing will stop the glider blowing over . |
| 5 | Navigating with a pen is surprisingly natural and certainly easier than using a mouse on a train , but the handwriting recognition is still weak . |
| 6 | Silas went on , ‘ You must also realise that standing in for Stella has more to it than turning a sausage on the barbecue . |
| 7 | ‘ I told Philip Schofield that shagging a sheep on the edge of a cliff was better because they push back . |
| 8 | It now became easier to send multiple copies of papers to colleagues rather than sending a file on the circuit of an institution . |
| 9 | When he arrived at Manly beach with a board he had carved out of sugar pine , many were those who said that riding a wave on a board was pure myth , a legend of the South Seas brought back by drunken sailors . |
| 10 | I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical . |
| 11 | The main reasons are that putting a plan on paper helps an organization to decide what it wants to achieve , to communicate its ideas to others and to monitor future Performance . |
| 12 | Jacey ( London ) Ltd and Others ( 1975 ) , demonstrated clearly that showing a film on licensed premises could be indicted as an indecent public exhibition . |
| 13 | It also offers 3D spreadsheets so that changing a value on one spreadsheet automatically changes a related value in another one . |
| 14 | One thing to remember : there is a lot more to safer sex than putting a condom on a penis . |
| 15 | He suggested the Church should concentrate its message on violence rather than offering a view on the Social Chapter . |
| 16 | Using a medium tension and hanging a weight on the scarf as it is being knitted will make it curl more easily . |
| 17 | Shelley suddenly swung his luminous face towards me , sat quickly down on a chair , sticking out one leg and resting a hand on his thigh , clearly inviting me to hold the floor awhile . |
| 18 | That threatened dozens of jobs in school kitchens , but now the staff have worked out that by concentrating cooking in larger schools and using a meals on wheels principle to serve others , they can provide a hot meal for everyone , without a subsidy and without putting up prices . |
| 19 | Fancy coming in here and demanding a Pernod on his very first day at the office ! |
| 20 | He had no time for school sports and would rather interest himself in planning and building a village on the school grounds . ’ |
| 21 | She had dropped off to sleep in spite of herself , and now it was a black night with a wind getting up that was making the beech trees creak and rattling a shutter on one of the upper windows . |
| 22 | The user specifies the option required by pointing the mouse to the icon and pressing a button on the mouse to activate that process . |
| 23 | By 1989 , he was publicly proclaiming his intention of imitating Albania and anchoring a ban on foreign loans in the constitution , which was clearly going to be more binding on his successors than himself . |
| 24 | A then North Korean Deputy Premier , Cho Se Ung , visited Ulan Bator in August 1989 , discussing joint ventures and signing a protocol on scientific and technical cooperation . |
| 25 | The court may in any action or matter by order allow or direct the amendment of any originating process or pleading , and a party may ( unless Ord 9 , r 2(3) applies — see below ) without an order amend any pleadings at any time before the " return day " by filing the amended pleading and serving a copy on every other party . |
| 26 | They will be talking to local people , organisations and authorities and writing a report on the route 's suitability for upgrading . |
| 27 | Maureen Walker is a ‘ design writer and stylist ’ — after ten years as Home Editor of the Sunday Times and writing a book on interiors , she has a wealth of experience to call on . |
| 28 | ‘ Why , Mother ! ’ she exclaimed , embracing the stout shoulders and implanting a kiss on her mother 's cheek . |
| 29 | selling and getting a result on that you see I 've covered a lot of stuff for you on that , I 've covered quite a bit with you on , er product knowledge , now would you say that you 're reasonably together there and where you want to be on product knowledge ? |
| 30 | It was not enough that Phoebe should turn up looking like a manual worker — ( 'But , for God 's sake , Maggie , I am a manual worker' ) — and wearing a button on her overalls which said ‘ This facility is under threat from rate-capping , ’ which made boys on buses make obscene jokes ; she also had to take on the maths teacher . |