Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 2 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 3 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 4 | If an application is declared admissible , and a friendly settlement can not be achieved , the subsequent decisions of the Court are binding on the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Furthermore , this Convention also requires that acceptance of the right or obligation by the third party organisation be in accordance with its constitutive rules , which again assumes that they are binding on the organisation , although contained in a treaty to which it is not a party . |
| 6 | This device depends on the existence of institutions which can actually adjudicate on and , one hopes , resolve disputes in a relatively impartial way on the basis of impartial rules whose decisions are binding on the parties in question . |
| 7 | Most importantly the heads can contain terms that are binding on the vendor and purchaser . |
| 8 | BGS and the Geological Survey of Ireland are collaborating on the compilation of a new tectonic map of Great Britain , Ireland and the surrounding seas . |
| 9 | He notes that IBM and Apple are collaborating on the PowerPC CPU , and not on systems : Apple boxes will run System 7 , not Pink or any new operating system . |
| 10 | Look for them where fairly large , heavy objects are resting on the soil , for example , under large stones , a garden roller or a log . |
| 11 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 12 | With the Insurance Corporation League beginning in a fortnight 's time , Instonians , like most senior outfits , are experimenting on the opening day of the season to quickly assess their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 13 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 14 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 15 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 16 | Dealing Team , who has been knocking on the door at Hackney , should prove too strong for her rivals on Tuesday 's BAGS card . |
| 17 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 18 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 19 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 20 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
| 21 | When the Chancellor next visits the Duchy of Lancaster , will he kindly explain why the Government are cheating on the RECHAR money and thus depriving the coalfields of Lancashire and Yorkshire of funds that are rightly theirs ? |
| 22 | But Germany and Japan , as well as several other not-so-rich but big countries , are knocking on the door . |
| 23 | We are knocking on the door of the League and I said to him : ‘ Why not do a Barnet here ? ’ ’ |
| 24 | They have claimed the shirts and while there might be those who are knocking on the door , because those who are in are producing the goods , it means they are keeping the door tightly shut at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 26 | The young are walking on the riverbank , |
| 27 | From Plato 's Academy , in fifth-century BC Athens , to the latest government report on higher education , experts have been pronouncing on the value of college education — what it contributes to the development of individual character and what to society . |
| 28 | At the end of our corridor is the playroom where the children not yet in school spend their days with playworkers — unemployed women who 'd been signing on the dole before getting these " work experience scheme " jobs funded by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 29 | I am dallying on the brink , and for an ex-smoker , the brink is a perilous place to be ; for an ex-smoker of the left , it is more perilous still . |
| 30 | Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops . |