Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to prediction , we find Ruritania embarking on a hopeless war with a much stronger neighbour . |
| 2 | Lucian Freud embarking on a mammoth artistic task which occupied several months of early morning work . |
| 3 | The speeder , with Ace on the cockpit floor and Daak lying on a concrete slab lying on the weapons deck , soared skywards , into coils of choking smoke . |
| 4 | Through the open French window leading out into the garden , Matt could see Cindy sitting on a swinging bench with Emma 's children on either side of her . |
| 5 | The next afternoon found Kate lying on a lounger beside a pool in the Algarve . |
| 6 | I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed . |
| 7 | Mpb Nick Harris reporting on a pulsating game up at Tottenham this afternoon . |
| 8 | And sure enough there 's Macaulay lying on a massive , draped bed in a room overlooking Central Park watching gangster videos , being spoon-fed ice cream by a subservient flunkey and generally answering to no one . |
| 9 | Networking , I said , is what you do in the corridor outside the plenary session of the annual conference with that interesting chap from Stanford working on a similar problem . |
| 10 | ‘ You can leave after lunch , ’ he said flatly , and then paused , frowning as he pulled out a vast painting of Rachel lying on a blazing sunlit beach , her slender body clad in a brief white bikini , her face young and lovely . |
| 11 | Little Billy recognised Don Mini riding on a fine jay and he was waving and cheering as he flew alongside them . |
| 12 | At the downsizing Expo in San Franscico last week , Sequent Computer Corp demonstrated a symmetric multi-processing version of Windows NT running on a 16 processor 50MHz Intel Corp-based 808486 Symmetry 2000 machine . |