Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youds , 22 , of Lavenham Road , Ipswich , admitted speeding on the A45 at Kentford , near Newmarket , on November 8 last year . |
| 2 | be careful of the roads because a car ca n't erm ca n't always stop in time it 's up to you not to walk out in front of them cos they can say oh well you should be able to stop in time but in practice if you drove to be able to stop in time if somebody stepped out in front of you you 'd never above about five miles an hour you know ? you must sort of stick to the speed limits I do n't believe it we got gaining on the car in front . |
| 3 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 4 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 5 | Yeah erm so er you know you may find some traces of a more , you know , kind of er I do n't know , politicized understanding on the part of blind people as to , you know , what it means to you know kind of have their life investigated |
| 6 | A company rule provided for the instant and automatic dismissal of anyone found smoking on the premises . |
| 7 | So you 'd made a verbal contract over the phone with a lady who you found living on the premises so you had every right to believe that she owned the furniture . |
| 8 | The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem . |
| 9 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 10 | Devise a marking code so that dog-whelks found feeding on the different prey species can be so distinguished . |
| 11 | He suggested two dates : the second involved travelling on the day of Edmund 's wedding . |
| 12 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 13 | At the start of the plenum hardline critics proposed putting on the agenda discussion of separating the post of general secretary from that of state President . |
| 14 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop |
| 15 | ‘ The amateurs do things you 'd never see in the commercial stuff , ’ I was told by one connoisseur of raunch , an unemployed factory worker named Jesse who I found sitting on the floor of a porn shop in Manhattan 's Times Square , diligently sifting through dozens of the more hardcore amateur tapes . |
| 16 | WE 'RE HAVING BIG TROUBLE JUSTIFYING OUR LARGE SALARIES SINCE WE STOPPED SPYING ON THE RUSSIANS ! |
| 17 | The first part involved full time study for six months , from January to June , and the second part , which finished in November , involved working on a supervised project . |
| 18 | Long before Doone came knocking on the door , Perkin could have decided , in case the girl 's body were ever found , to say he did n't remember her . |
| 19 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 20 | So apparently last night he came knocking on the door . |
| 21 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 22 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 23 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 24 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 25 | There the cries of the watersellers and the buzz of taxis came wafting on the wind , strident and echoing across the dirty water . |
| 26 | ‘ The last time you went to Confession , ’ I stirred it , ‘ they still allowed smoking on the underground . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He hated going on the river at all . |
| 28 | Oh well , they got staying on the place and , oh that money never , er was never asked for money for . |
| 29 | ‘ Police began firing on the trapped mass of people . |
| 30 | The sun sank lower on my left and the blue shadows of dusk began gathering on the pines and firs and creeping in among the sapling branches and the alders . |