Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Boulton and Watt job , with its huge cast-iron beam , is reckoned to be the world 's oldest engine still running on steam . |
| 2 | Angel and Tess decided to spend a day together shopping on Christmas Eve . |
| 3 | The fax is transmitted at a much faster rate thus saving on telephone bills . |
| 4 | that 's , that 's the other thing when there 's only two of you involved and you , we were opening for that first sort of eighteen months five , six days a week just keeping on top of a day to day business does n't allow you to sit back |
| 5 | In 1544 and 1545 , one of the most attractive of the leading Scottish reformers — and a man certainly working on behalf of England — George Wishart , was preaching openly , with remarkably little difficulty ; only in the spring of 1546 was he finally apprehended by Beaton , and burned for heresy . |