Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course you ca n't put the tails hanging down on bar ten can you . |
| 2 | Further investigations revealed that the platypus 's electric sensors lie within its bill , probably in glands which secrete a fluid to stop the sensors drying out on land . |
| 3 | for instance , as Nikitin points out , it is impossible to categorize those garrison troops who undertook private trading against their superiors ' orders , or those private individuals who voluntarily joined armed detachments going out on campaign under orders from Moscow . |
| 4 | It 's the very first stage and anyone who ignores this aspect of the hobby , will spend no end of lovely days pottering about on river banks but will never be rewarded with a good show of colour ( gold ) in their pan . |
| 5 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 6 | Short of the holocaust , when everything will be blown away on the wind of oblivion , there is no reason to believe that we will see the lights going down on capitalism in our lifetime . |
| 7 | Just think : Stars piling in on top of each other . |
| 8 | COHSE members coming out on strike because of their refusal to take a little boy into the theatre for an operation , pin-ups being removed from the Yorkshire miners ' newspaper , painkillers being laced with poison in the US , John Nott walking out on Robin Day in front of the TV cameras , Helmut Kohl taking over from ( crash ) Helmut Schmidt and public service pay rises being kept down to 3 ½ per cent , every single event being , in some eyes , a disaster . |
| 9 | ‘ When I drive through the town on a night I see large groups of youths standing around on street corners . |
| 10 | And a fellow officer was given a bloody nose when he refused to get out of bed and watch the results coming in on TV , it was alleged . |
| 11 | Commonwealth leaders meeting in Cyprus have agreed to set up a special mission to lobby key capitals holding out on agreement on the GATT trade negotiations . |
| 12 | Spend some moments working out on paper the most important issues you need to pray about . |
| 13 | Teachers spend their breaks preparing lesson plans , and their evenings swotting up on jargon . |
| 14 | On the opening night of a tour to support her new album Mir Mamma , there were first night nerves floating around on stage , but the performance did n't suffer and ranks as the best of the year . |