Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 2 | However , a tail-wheel is more convenient for ground handling , particularly as with these types of glider the tail is extremely heavy and awkward to lift when the glider needs turning around on the ground . |
| 3 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 4 | Still , people often do it without thinking , especially in a fight when everyone falls over and starts rolling about on the ground . |
| 5 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 6 | The National Rivers Authority say messing about on the river is n't clever , and that too many people fail to appreciate the dangers . |
| 7 | In quick succession , Sandy Lyle , Faldo twice and then , last year , Ian Woosnam came riding in on the crest of a British tidal wave . |
| 8 | Nothing would do more to boost Daniele 's status than to be seen showing off on the Corso while his father 's life still hung in the balance . |
| 9 | Even from the more recent past a younger Pete Dossett or Jason Lunn would have been seen working out on the Farnborough ramp . |
| 10 | Anybody in Tadcaster who knows where Karen Smith lives and this is not my idea but it 's a goody could you ring and tell us what she 's got hanging out on the washing line at the moment . |
| 11 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 12 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 13 | It was agreed by Mrs Buckingham , who had always resisted the false belief about the pain in her daughter 's back , that Harriet should stop lying around on the hall seat and go to a school founded in the 1840S for the further education of gentlewomen . |
| 14 | Because you 're probably doubling doubling up on the recording . |
| 15 | Shortly after Rome Carl began speaking out on the drug issue , implicating by suggestion Ben and his coach Charlie Francis . |
| 16 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 17 | If you like messing about on the river , they you 'll love this lake ( go parascending and you can even mess about above it ! ) |
| 18 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 19 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 20 | If such ventures encourage better design for older people , they will undoubtedly banish practices which are unhelpful to most people , whatever their age : power points on skirting boards , washing machines which make you bend double to get the washing out , videorecorder cabinets which mean crawling around on the floor to put on tapes — all three are candidates for design improvements . |
| 21 | She dropped down and started groping round on the floor as the bus sped down the long hill into town . |
| 22 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 23 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 24 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 25 | Until recently , that is , when something started stirring down on the movie lot . |
| 26 | Losing excess weight entails cutting down on the things you enjoy . |
| 27 | To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane . |
| 28 | Instead , try cutting down on the number of exercises , increasing the weight and making sure that you perform 3 sets of at least 8 reps . |
| 29 | ‘ I keep falling in on the inside of the turn . ’ |
| 30 | I like to see washing out on the line — especially sheets and the boy 's shirts . |