Example sentences of "[adj] and [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worrying about people 's comments instead of keeping calm and concentrating on the flying and on getting down safely is often the root cause of a bad landing . |
| 2 | John Tavener 's cello work The Protecting Veil is hymn-like and bordering on the minimalist . |
| 3 | Joe could n't be sure without checking , but he thought that the street was somewhere outside of Soho proper and bordering on the fringe of Chinatown . |
| 4 | Dot sat rigid and shivering on the wicker armchair in the conservatory . |
| 5 | And he put his hand out to her , warm and loving on the counterpane between them . |
| 6 | Duvall , semi-conscious and moaning on the floor . |
| 7 | I could hear the shotgun barking as I walked through the dim , dripping woods from the house , staying off the muddy path as much as possible and walking on the flattened , exhausted-looking grass at its side to keep my shoes from clogging up . |
| 8 | I sat sweating and swearing on the sticky back seat . |
| 9 | The boring old unions would be pushed out by a new Rainbow Alliance of media-wise radicals , alert and campaigning on the big issues of racial and sexual discrimination , nuclear power , and protecting the environment . |
| 10 | She would be a gold-wrapped parcel , hard and shining on the outside , soft and tempting on the inside . |
| 11 | Cold on the feet on the cold and damaging on the eyeball . |
| 12 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 13 | She seemed to be wearing Anna 's evening dress , long and black and trailing on the floor , winking with spangles . |
| 14 | There was a great bubbling and frothing on the surface of the water . |
| 15 | The desire of Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , to deliver the West German side of the bargain appears to have been dissolved by the prospect of television pictures showing young East German families , including pregnant women , hungry and crying on the pavement outside an unwelcoming West German embassy . |
| 16 | Like the Holy Ghost , ascending and descending on the foreheads of the Apostles , only in Maggie 's case it 's voles and fieldmice . ’ |
| 17 | His mother stretched mute and bleeding on the bed . |
| 18 | 12.1 In the event of any dispute or difference arising between any of the Parties concerning this Agreement or the construction or performance thereof , such dispute or difference shall in the first instance be referred to the Project Manager whose decision shall be final and binding on the Parties unless with 14 days after such decision any one of the Parties shall have notified the others of his dissatisfaction with such decision . |
| 19 | At the simplest level this means deciding that someone wearing , say , a skirt in our society is female and acting on the basis of this decision , or deciding that someone shouting at the top of his or her voice is excited or angry and acting accordingly . |
| 20 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
| 21 | Gerry 's voice was gentle , quiet and coaxing on the phone , ‘ Do you remember Andy ? ’ |
| 22 | There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case . |
| 23 | The House of Lords believed that a period of exclusivity would be valid and binding on the vendor provided that consideration passed between the parties , that the terms of the period were certain and the parties intended to be bound . |