Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Scott brought his hand crashing down on the desk top , his face pale with rage , the vein at his temple throbbing . |
| 8 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 9 | Kneeling down on the floor , he picked up an empty cartridge case . |
| 10 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These people are afghans … a few of the one million who fled the rockets raining down on the capital city , Kabul . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 15 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The stool was built into the set and was triggered by pressing down on the foot-rest . |
| 20 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 23 | Afterwards , we clung to the rail , listening to the wind howling ; watching vast , angry waves crowding in on every side . |
| 24 | Social problems are crowding in on a city where the body-count for murders rose from a record 1,905 in 1989 to a new record of more than 2,200 in 1990 . |
| 25 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 26 | On the other hand , cracking down on the rebels could widen the fissures within the army and encourage disgruntled officers to plot more coups . |
| 27 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 28 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 29 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 30 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |