Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 2 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 3 | ( Grimmitt 1973 ) , which advocated the dimensional alongside the existential approach to RE , advised intermingling the experiential , mythological and ritual dimensions and focusing on them in the primary school , adding the social and ethical together for lower Secondary , and finally bringing in the doctrinal with the upper forms of Secondary schools , as this dimension is the most difficult to cope with ( pp. 50 , 92f ) . |
| 4 | A burst of laughter , another joke , more laughter , more jokes , laughter/jokes/laughter/jokes in an escalating feedback spiralling higher , robbing the guests of the ability to eat , straining our jawbones , while Robin is relentless , driven , reckless , focusing on me as the host — host of the dinner , but of his wit — reducing my voluble everyday self to a tongue-tied Zeppo Marx , hallucinating , hungry , exhausted , and in pain , until kapow ! |
| 5 | you 're talking as much a about y it 's reflecting on you as the line manager , how much are you communicating with this |
| 6 | But with fighter pilots depending on them for the fuel to get home with , the tanker crews say they have a feeling their friends will look after them . |
| 7 | She is pleasant enough but how reliable I can not say and I am not depending on her for the birth . |
| 8 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 9 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 10 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 11 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 12 | He found a mirror , stuck candles at either side of it and sat , naked , before it , the sweat drying on him as the warm undulation of night air moved into the room . |
| 13 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 14 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 15 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |
| 16 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 17 | The Save Venice trust are working on it at the moment . |
| 18 | These pull-down menus can all be accessed either by pressing ALT and the appropriate letter , or by clicking on them with the mouse . |
| 19 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |