Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To add some sort of spice , someone has had the bright idea of bringing on the JB Horns . |
| 2 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 3 | N : Looking at my nappies hanging on a washing line in our kitchen |
| 4 | Daily inspections of the tank will indicate a few fry hanging on the tank sides and others hiding in the mops . |
| 5 | Okay where 's that it 's in the cu the cups They 're on the cup board , hanging on the cup board . |
| 6 | What 's Karen got hanging on the washing line erm are we up are we up for erm the Bare Naked Ladies there I think we are . |
| 7 | We 're all going on a Summer holiday for a week or two me and you |
| 8 | Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift . |
| 9 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 10 | Visualise a senior executive switching on a notebook PC in a hotel room , plugging the modem into the telephone socket and then settling down to tap into information stored on any of the organisation 's computer systems , anywhere in the world , through a simple click-and-point action of the mouse . |
| 11 | Switching on the overdrive channel , however , gave immediate access to the right stuff . |
| 12 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 13 | Feeling suddenly full of energy , she got up , and , switching on the immersion heater so that she could have a bath later , she decided to give the cottage a good clean . |
| 14 | Switching on the bedside light , I got out of bed and fumbled into my bathrobe . |
| 15 | Switching on the television set to watch a modern Boat Race , I recall the heated passions aroused among small boys in the early 1930s as we waited to learn whether we had picked the right shade of blue . |
| 16 | Well I have n't said , her , heard anybody say anything about the grand old tradition of switching on the television set , and I 've a horrible feeling that er that th that the one day in the year when people want to get together with their families probably means switching off the television set . |
| 17 | Removing stale , moist air from inside the house may be brought about deliberately — by opening a window or switching on an extractor fan — or may occur fortuitously — air passing up chimney flues , for example , or finding its own way out through one or two small gaps in the house structure . |
| 18 | He had agreed to taking on a reading tour in Scotland . |
| 19 | Taylor is obviously full of anticipation as he embarks on the most important year since taking on the England job . |
| 20 | Taking on the title role originally created by Michael Crawford in the Seventies , Jonathon opens at the Opera House in Manchester in September as Billy . |
| 21 | Taking on the Runcorn betting shop cashier is Charlton 's Steve Gritt who gets a 20-metre start . |
| 22 | Courageous in taking on the over-spending bogey that did such havoc in 1987 , it nevertheless opened the floodgates to a fortnight of ‘ we can give away more tax than you ’ , and exchanges between the two parties of a staggering triviality that effectively supplanted any wider debate about the economy . |
| 23 | Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 . |
| 24 | I always will be , ’ claiming that taking on the pop funk sound of the moment was a perfect fulfilment of punk 's evangelist logic . |
| 25 | If you are waiting for post-feminists to hasten to your rescue , girding their loins and hairy-leggedly taking on the Viz comics and Dennis Potters of this world on your behalf , I would suggest that you do n't hold your breath . |
| 26 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |
| 27 | Joseph Anthony Villa , boss of the company since 1966 , admitted 13 charges of carrying on a food business in unclean premises . |
| 28 | Like his father , Isaac became the leading figure in the Jewish community of Norwich , carrying on a family tradition of financial support for rabbinical study which earned Eliab , Isaac , and Isaac 's own sons Moses and Samuel the honorific title , HaNadib , ‘ the generous ’ . |
| 29 | A number of cases have dealt with the valuation of fittings attached to or used in connection with land , whether freehold or leasehold , and associated products and machinery , whether in farms , public houses or factories : see : ( 1 ) for a farming example , Leeds v Burrows ( 1810 ) 12 East 1 , where the value of the outgoing tenant 's hay and a " spike-roll " had to be assessed ; ( 2 ) for a public house , Smith v Peters ( 1875 ) 2O LR Eq 511 , where the household furniture , fixtures and other effects were to be valued ; and ( 3 ) for a factory , Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , where there was a small company carrying on a family business of manufacturing and retailing woollen goods , and there needed to be a valuation of the premises and the machinery . |
| 30 | A group of Country Whigs certainly remained important " out-of-doors " , in carrying on the propaganda war against the Court . |