Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 2 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 3 | It would be like traveling on some airlines I could name . |
| 4 | Just in , just in passing on this committee I 'm assured will be concerned of the apparent difficulties between er the Highways er and the organization of Suffolk and that in Norfolk , erm and we shall be I think er wishing to look at that er to see what 's going astray and something appears to me to be not quite right in the relationship and er , erm I think it 's important that er adjoining Highway Authorities do in fact get on |
| 5 | The family spent the summer of 1948 in the Lebanese hill resort of Aley , living on 7,000 pounds they had taken with them from Palestine . |
| 6 | If you are writing on this topic you can work out a list of different sorts of tragedy . |
| 7 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |
| 8 | So if for any reason I feel like adding on some points I will do , and equally I 'll decide to take some points off if I feel like it . |
| 9 | As our first example of deciding on hedonistic grounds we took a choice between two dishes . |
| 10 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 11 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 12 | But before expanding on this interpretation it is necessary to consider some evidence that is apparently directly contradictory . |
| 13 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 14 | Liam I can hear everything you 're saying on this Meg you know , really clearly . |
| 15 | When boats were travelling on improved sections they would go in pairs . |
| 16 | With electronic aids to navigation proliferating on small boats of all kinds and technology advancing on all fronts it is hardly surprising that a revised second edition of this volume has been required only three years after first publication . |
| 17 | we 're just , we 're just running on five tapes I think , well only four because one of them are oh well , let's go upstairs again |
| 18 | he 's , it was n't a minute struggle , you , you kept harping on all week he 's in , in the |
| 19 | And we were dancing on that bit you see . |
| 20 | The light 's flashing on this screen you know , |
| 21 | I 've been out there and I still did n't know what erm but they will er if if you 're struggling on any assignment they will not let you struggle for day in day out . |
| 22 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 23 | Ca n't even sitting on those chairs you see and she gave a really and loud whistle ! |
| 24 | By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that |
| 25 | The restraint of trade doctrine is , therefore , an aspect of public policy and before relying on older authorities it must be remembered that the perception of what constitutes public policy may change . |
| 26 | We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications . |
| 27 | in case it has any bearing on any difficulty you might have in the future so he 's to go down |
| 28 | Following on these movements we have a marked regression followed by the widespread transgressions , both in Europe and North America , of the late Llandovery and Wenlock . |
| 29 | When you are working on curved designs you should try to sort through your material and choose stems that are curved , as they will give a much more natural effect than if you have to use entirely straight pieces and encourage them to curl . |
| 30 | After the experience of working on this table I would say that this is absolute rot . |