Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the other hand , cracking down on the rebels could widen the fissures within the army and encourage disgruntled officers to plot more coups . |
| 4 | Others were already wriggling around in the Alice 's undercarriage , zeroing in on the inlets . |
| 5 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 6 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 7 | As a result , they feel themselves not only homeless but in a total existential crisis — ending up on the dossers circuit removes the last residues of respectability . |
| 8 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 9 | They 're a bit cold when you 're walking out on the streets . |
| 10 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 11 | Looking down on the clouds , Snowdonia |
| 12 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 13 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 14 | ‘ I came to hate the Tech-Green philosophy and did n't want to live out an expanded life up there somewhere , looking down on the unfortunates left on Earth . |
| 15 | Another very common action is pushing down on the legs to propel the body upwards . |
| 16 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 17 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 18 | Tony and his friends made their way to the bar — homing pigeons coasting along on the wings of thirst . |
| 19 | Carolyn was picking up on the movements of the three women , which had seemed so mysteriously random at first . |
| 20 | How , picking up on the terms you use Professor Lock , how would the policy guarantee that what this elephant was special ? |
| 21 | For me it was certainly a healthy life , living up on the wolds after two years in the marshy lowlands of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon . |
| 22 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 23 | Thus County Armagh Free Presbyterians , looking back on the explosives cases and the charges laid against Free Presbyterians , recollected that far from supposing these people might be guilty and hence in need of church discipline , they assumed their innocence and believed that the charges were just another part of the plot to discredit Paisleyism . |
| 24 | Erm looking back on the photographs . |
| 25 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 26 | As rapid economic and social change has worked its way through the countryside , however , the farm worker has found himself increasingly separated from the local village community both socially and — for those living out on the farms — geographically . |
| 27 | Who is to say what it was like living out on the plains for months on end , at first in a tent and then in a small house , not much more than a hut , built of saplings , mud , and cow dung , which she equipped with Somali fabrics and safari furniture ? |
| 28 | She sat at the window , looking out on the gardens , not wanting to be reminded of her ordeal as her two companions searched for any clues that might have been left . |
| 29 | So we need , it 's simply a question of pulling in on the reasons for this , if it 's maternity , it 's suspension , it gives us much more understanding than simply globally assuming everybody who 's away is sick . |
| 30 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |