Example sentences of "[v-ing] on the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty with this relief is that , throughout the period beginning when the employee acquires his shares and ending on the date on which the interest is paid , Newco must be a trading company or the holding company of a trading group , rather than merely in existence for one of these purposes . |
| 2 | The volume , at HK$2.12 billion ( £160m ) , was marginally higher than it was in trading on the market on Tuesday , but it did not suggest a rush of sellers . |
| 3 | Standing to paddle , the fishermen are extended by their reflections and appear to be walking on the water on wavering stilts , their long paddles a second leg . |
| 4 | Even the engraving and writing on the top on , on , on the top of the viewfinder here is nicely lit , you can see that it 's er er , the light is catching all the various edges of the engraving on the top . |
| 5 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 6 | er , when you know you go home and lying on the doormat on the Friday night is a great tome of paper that came second post which made me out to be the biggest idiot philanderer , thief , cheat and liar in the world |
| 7 | ‘ Now go into the kitchen and take the tray which you 'll find waiting on the table on the left and take it up to room five on the third floor . ’ |
| 8 | A first interim care or supervision order made in the proceedings may last up to eight weeks beginning on the date on which it was made . |
| 9 | Commenting on the decision on May 23 , the Justice Minister , Shabib Lazim al-Maliki , said that the Revolutionary Court was " unnatural " . |
| 10 | Commenting on the killing on Nov. 7 of a two-year-old child by an ETA car-bomb intended for his policeman father , Extabe described the ETA leadership as " four imbeciles " and said that such operations were turning Basque opinion as well as general opinion against ETA . |
| 11 | Commenting on the move on June 3 , politburo standing committee member Li Ruihuan said that the rehabilitation was the result of a " party judgement " . |
| 12 | The study will be given specificity and historical depth by focusing on the community on which I have worked since 1970 . |
| 13 | We threw parties while travelling on the tube on the good old Central Line . |
| 14 | The load forces were taken by the centre hole in the wheel resting on the flange on the end of the axle . |
| 15 | Sailing on the night on 26 December — the day Colonel Harrison 's men landed in the Lofoten Islands — the Vaagsö force met the submarine HMS Tuna on station as their navigation check at 0700 hours off Vaagsfjord and steamed up the fjord between spectacular snow-covered hills glinting in the dark . |
| 16 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 17 | Pelham was named to the high court of justice to try the king , attended the first meeting on 6 January 1649 , commenced sitting on the court on its first day , 20 January , was one of the most zealous and faithful attenders of sittings ( absent only once ) , was present when the sentence was read out , and signed the king 's death-warrant . |
| 18 | The doorway led into a small court with white walls and flat roof of red earth , empty except for a man sitting on the ground on a blue mat . |
| 19 | Also the dog was sitting on the carpet on Carla 's bare feet . |
| 20 | I am glad to have the opportunity of welcoming you to WISE V — this special mobile classroom which British Rail Signal and Telecommunications Engineering has funded is to provide your pupils a chance to experience the excitement of working on the equipment on board . |
| 21 | The noise and nuisance caused by a decision to keep working on the building on Sundays was also a source of neighbourly discontent . |
| 22 | Rosalind Sharp is working on The Independent on Sunday . |
| 23 | First of all , turn on the paragraph markers by clicking on the button on the far right of the Ribbon . |