Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 2 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 3 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 4 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 5 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 6 | Then Mr. Shelford makes his pathetic statement on referees clamping down on the high tackle . |
| 7 | a mate of mine actually worked out in Russia and he said you know , piece of discussions about when , where the Russian 's sort of appear first and this sort of he said he said erm , this , he said that , that kids running around on the streets of Moscow is actually given a working permit and so he could actual work there and sort of like er |
| 8 | But , unfortunately , there are also restaurants cashing in on the brasserie bandwagon by serving cheap , cheerful and desperately trendy bistro food in designer surroundings — and charging the earth for it . |
| 9 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 10 | Then , as we neared the entrance , a ship came up astern , and she can only have been one of Everard 's sailing barges coming up on the tide . |
| 11 | Blind grain sites showing up on the ears of some cereal crops could trim yields and perhaps downgrade stands intended for seed . |
| 12 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 13 | Through the wide-open window floated the lightest of breezes , tangy with the scent of wild herbs growing up on the rugged hills behind the town . |
| 14 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 15 | Ruining your good trousers wriggling about on the ground . |
| 16 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 17 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 18 | I see bands going out on the road with a dozen more people than they actually need . |
| 19 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 20 | Henceforth the old spectacle of brokers milling around on the Stock Exchange floor was replaced by silent , almost invisible , computerized networks for dealers , reflecting the new internationalism of the stock market . |
| 21 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 22 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 23 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 24 | Tony and his friends made their way to the bar — homing pigeons coasting along on the wings of thirst . |
| 25 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 26 | First the Oxford United saga goes on … with things improving out on the pitch , off the field it 's a tangled complex web of debts , transfers , receivers , and … adjourned annual general meetings . |
| 27 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 28 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 29 | If you see the caterpillars crawling around on the bottom of the cage , you will know it is time to put some soil there . |
| 30 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |