Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 2 | In effect , each is swearing to keep it on pain of death . |
| 3 | In that case the appellant who was , and is , serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder , sought a declaration against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State that he was in effect entitled to know the reasons for refusing to release him on licence . |
| 4 | ‘ And are you going to like it on Omega , Jenny ? ’ |
| 5 | I 'm going to see her on Saturday . ’ |
| 6 | Erm missing procedures we have decided that Jenny is going to write T G I , Beety will write B T and we are going to write something on access and we may need to write something on erm Health and Finance and those documents we have got in the Master File . |
| 7 | I was yards away down the other end of the table , yearning to hear WHAT ON EARTH he was saying and suffering pangs of guilt that I spent so little time encouraging him to unburden himself to me . |
| 8 | They 've been putting pressure on this chap Morris to renew Sykes 's fellowship , and the clincher is he was going to do it on Monday . ’ |
| 9 | Émile was going to revenge himself on Jean-Claude for what he regarded as his arrogance . |
| 10 | So you say to the person , you must say to them , I 'm going to put you on call park , do n't worry about it , do n't go away , I wo n't be a minute or two . |
| 11 | ‘ We 're going to take them on Monday , ’ he said . |
| 12 | People kept coming to visit him on business . |
| 13 | I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 14 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 15 | Having to watch himself on screen as an old man , did it cast up worries about Gibson 's own appearance ? |
| 16 | She was fighting to turn him , fighting to bring him on top of her . |
| 17 | I pretend to believe in living in my room , but it 's true that I am trying to thrust myself on stage . |
| 18 | Always trying to blame it on Man , as if God had nothing whatsoever to do with it . |
| 19 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |