Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 2 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 3 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see you grappling with it on a daily basis , ’ he drawled softly . |
| 5 | He started off carrying something like a seventy- to eighty-pound pack of tinned foods and dried foods , his only companion a lurcher dog walking beside him on a length of clothesline . |
| 6 | Walkers would find themselves diving out of the way on paths , escaping from runaway mountain bikes careering towards them on a mission to deposit their riders in a ditch . |
| 7 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |
| 8 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 9 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 10 | There was this old lady comes towards me ; she was fussing about her luggage , that a porter was pushing behind her on a trolley . |
| 11 | The French army included in the middle of the century over 50,000 foreigners , and still had over 40,000 serving in it on the eve of the Revolution . |
| 12 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 13 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 14 | Watching it or listening to it on the |
| 15 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 16 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 17 | Well they 're actually paying for it on the erm |
| 18 | The dark circles under his eyes suggested he might well have spent the entire night going through them on a tape recorder , but it had n't helped . |
| 19 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 20 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 21 | Why were some men waiting for her on the night she died ? |
| 22 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 23 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 24 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 25 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 26 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 27 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 28 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 29 | He reckons we are going into it on the last of the downward slope this winter , and then will run along on level ground for the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 30 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |