Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A queue had formed by the table holding the teacakes and a crowd gathered to watch the animal sacrifice slowly rotating on a giant spit . |
| 2 | Without going into the minutiae of the terms of these and other benefits , it is important to appreciate that the former is means tested , so depending on the financial circumstances of your spouse , marriage could result in your benefit being stopped . |
| 3 | Suddenly there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 4 | Before she could answer there was a loud banging on the front door . |
| 5 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 6 | They were having dinner the following day when there was a loud knocking on the front door . |
| 7 | Adam was thinking about this interesting word that used to be simply another term for pine but which originally meant a certain size of plank , from the Low German dele , when there came a loud knocking on the back door . |
| 8 | But as she was passing the Misses Cardings ' shop she heard a loud tapping on the upper part of the door ; then it was pulled open and Miss Belle Carding beckoned Agnes towards her , saying , ‘ Come in a minute , dear . |
| 9 | Because of the enormous stresses and strains constantly operating on the lower back , there are various different ways in which the sciatic nerve roots can get squeezed . |
| 10 | I suspect any successful teaching is only improving on a natural bent . |
| 11 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 12 | As the two mid-price discs are available separately , Elgarians may care to sample the first which includes the most ambitious of the Harmony Music ( in four parts , the first lasting nearly 12 minutes ) , the five Intermezzos and two descriptive slow pieces , then perhaps moving on the second . |
| 13 | A large engineering data base would be required to cover the useful range of engineering activities and should be handled by a separate suite of programs ( perhaps running on a remote machine ) . |
| 14 | She was enjoying the effect she was obviously having on the local population . |
| 15 | Brenda , her eyes suddenly alighting on a round milk stain on the table cloth , herself thought that breakfast was n't perhaps the most suitable time for a display of her recently acquired information about the investigation of rape . |
| 16 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 17 | I was very shaken I was only sitting on the other side of the wall . |
| 18 | Between January 1939 and June 1940 she worked on the French–Spanish border to alleviate the wretchedness of the defeated Spanish Republicans , only leaving on the last boat to sail for Britain from Bordeaux . |
| 19 | ‘ Mr Ashdown would be better concentrating on the basic issues that are of concern to the electorate rather than perpetually engaging in imagined card games that he thinks he would like to play on Friday morning . ’ |
| 20 | The prospect of Moscow , Kabul , Islamabad and New Delhi all agreeing on a joint satellite monitoring venture is not great . |
| 21 | California tends to be expensive , offering little saving on the real thing . |
| 22 | In their amphibious war were all the hazards of land patrols and raids , with the added uncertainty of a seaborne approach all too easily foundering on an adverse change in the weather or some unexpected shoal . |
| 23 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 24 | The fleet had gone east to Lantic Bay that day , and the first boats were already returning on the first of the ebb . |
| 25 | So just keeping on the same sort of subject , of sex , drugs and , |
| 26 | Other mitigating measures could involve the encouragement of private concerns to develop their own plantations , as is already occurring on a small scale , not only in the rainforest regions but also in savanna regions where Eucalyptus is being successfully cultivated to provide fuelwood and poles . |
| 27 | ‘ I am not accusing anyone , just remarking on a strange coincidence . ’ |
| 28 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 29 | cos I 'm just deciding on a new window frame . |
| 30 | Some bees were already crawling on the early clover . |