Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNCITRAL likewise engages in widespread consultation , drawing widely on the expertise of practising specialists . |
| 2 | Continue working up the graph , row by row , again knitting right on the right and left on the left . |
| 3 | He ran aside , firing upward on the run . |
| 4 | ‘ Mach helped me , ’ he said , watching her closely now , his hand resting loosely on the gun in his pocket . |
| 5 | Chairman John Gunn described the rumours as ‘ malicious , gratuitous and unnecessary , reflecting badly on the market ’ . |
| 6 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |
| 7 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 8 | He moved closer , into the dimness of the stall itself , and stood there beside her , his hand resting gently on the horse 's flank . |
| 9 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 10 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 11 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 12 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 13 | In many cases , identification of workers with the enterprise which employs them may be only weakly formed but again a community of interest may be established at this level , depending perhaps on the degree of ‘ paternalism ’ of the management , the character of employment conditions in the enterprise , and the degree of craft skill or other interesting aspect of work within the enterprise . |
| 14 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 15 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 16 | The various weights that the four fundamental activities can have , the controls imposed and the roles defined for individuals and departments , will vary for particular design processes depending greatly on the type of product being developed . |
| 17 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 18 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 19 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 20 | This may either affect the integrity of the complexes ( DMS also methylates proteins ) or , depending crucially on the composition of the binding buffer , strongly decrease the solubility and/or diffusibility of DMS and thus interfere with the final yield of the modification reaction . |
| 21 | A covenant in a lease is , prima , a contract binding only on the lessor and lessee . |
| 22 | From the fact that the whaler was lying stopped in the water and that Cousteau , his hand resting idly on the tiller , appeared to be expressing no great degree of interest in anything , it was obvious that his wait had been a vain one , a fact he confirmed on his arrival on the bridge . |
| 23 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 24 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 25 | Damage against this target is resolved with a strength of 5 representing the effect of the big heavy cauldron landing right on the victim 's head . |
| 26 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 27 | It could be a break , this is the bone here , supposing there is a break there , pressing down on the brain , that is a head injury , this part here is the bolt by the way and that is a injury to the bolt of the brain , just the top . |
| 28 | The stool was built into the set and was triggered by pressing down on the foot-rest . |
| 29 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 30 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |