Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the public started seeing my name on the back of these albums , the subsequent demand was staggering ! |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's not decent to go to war over something like this , ’ I screamed , thumping my fist on the table so that the cups on the dresser rattled . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 4 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 5 | To add to the general gothic touch , the now released pigeons fly around depositing their droppings on the dead body . |
| 6 | Amid signs of increasing desperation , Bush appeared to adopt a two-pronged strategy , using his powers as President to take actions calculated to improve his popularity , while his campaign staff increased the negative content of the campaign by intensifying their attacks on the character of Clinton , particularly in regard to his attempts as a student to avoid being drafted to Vietnam . |
| 7 | Today you have watched our mandarins banging their foreheads on the flagstones — but not for our emperor ! |
| 8 | In the Wimpy after 2001 we imitated the apes banging their bones on the ground with our knives and forks on the formica table . |
| 9 | She pushed into the dust , banging her head on the wooden underside . |
| 10 | She jumps up , banging her head on the partition . |
| 11 | Carol was bounced backwards into her seat and then sideways on the floor of the van , banging her head on the side in the process . |
| 12 | Unable to save herself , with a startled cry she pitched forward , tumbling down the remaining stairs and banging her head on the stone floor . |
| 13 | Replacing the plate , she stood up and went back inside the house , banging her slippers on the step to get rid of the snow . |
| 14 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 15 | Both the DoI and the 600 Group were keeping their information on the effects of robots on employment to themselves . |
| 16 | ‘ All right , dear ? ’ asked her mother , keeping her gaze on the television screen . |
| 17 | Rose ignored her , keeping her eyes on the rattling carriage , holding herself in a permanent half crouch , like a sprinter at the starting post . |
| 18 | My blaster , ’ she said , backing towards a wall and keeping her eyes on the widening gap between the doors . |
| 19 | Swallowing hard , she crawled once more under the rail and inched forward , keeping her eyes on the ground as she went . |
| 20 | She opened the door , keeping her eyes on the patch of darkness beyond the lamp . |
| 21 | Both arms plunged down into the water , but she was able to steady herself by pressing her hands on the stony bed . |
| 22 | BR used press campaigns in the early 1980s to put the arguments for higher state support , basing its case on the higher subsidies of other European railways as a percentage of GNP . |
| 23 | This relationship takes the form of the Public Account Committee basing its investigations on the reports submitted by the C. and A.G. |
| 24 | Delrina is basing its pitch on the expected low cost of these modems relative to the cost of buying separate facsimile and answering machines , and the large installed base of Windows users with a single phone line who keep finding themselves talking to modems . |
| 25 | The state of Wisconsin is basing its appeal on the fact that intent and emotion — passion , envy , fear — are often weighed in the balance in sentencing already . |
| 26 | Judges sat behind closed doors and took only written evidence , basing their decisions on the records of preliminary investigations conducted by the police . |
| 27 | Pensioners ' leaders , however , demanded a minimum monthly pension of between US$250 and $300 , basing their case on the level of current wage settlements . |
| 28 | Collectivist solutions go further than this , basing their arguments on the differences in the nature of consumption and accountability in the public and private sectors . |
| 29 | The court heard she was charged with driving her Bentley on the A-40 at Curbridge near Witney last year at 99 mph . |
| 30 | In the parallel line of the submissive , a pretty , dark girl of about twenty was emptying her handbag on the instructions of a uniformed harridan . |