Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pressed on and on , resting only briefly on a rock outcrop before continuing . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 3 | FILM beauty Kim Basinger was in pain last night with a foot stress fracture — after pedalling too hard on an exercise bike in a Hollywood gym . |
| 4 | And finally to complete this particular picture , picking up again on a theme that was introduced earlier on , we are using proprietary relational database technology , so there are many other tools which are available to you , for example the ability of Lotus One Two Three to go directly into the database , pull information out , present it in a spreadsheet , present it graphically . |
| 5 | And then you 're going up again on a surprisingly gentle rebound . |
| 6 | ‘ Going out there on a new board and catching my first wave when I had n't surfed Pipeline for a year only reaffirms my confidence . ’ |
| 7 | He was looking at a fine for parking too long on a meter at the Pier Head and it was for the staggering sum of £720 . |
| 8 | On each side a wide staircase led up in six zigzag sections , breaking off abruptly on an open landing about twenty metres above the ground . |
| 9 | To him , getting up early on a Sunday seemed sacrilegious , particularly if you had a woman around . |
| 10 | My pair of Birchirs have now settled down in their new home and are feeding very well on a plentiful supply of garden worms . |
| 11 | The Gothic and Baroque buildings in the centre of town seemed somehow to reflect the gloom with their peeling plaster and crumbling façades : a once-proud city of towers and spires , balconies , alleys and doorways , with the university — a jumbled collection of yellow buildings and small courtyards — standing on a rock above the River Morava gazing severely down on a gold-domed Russian Orthodox church , now boarded up , its green roof tiles slipped and broken . |
| 12 | You see , some of your ideas are beginning to rub off on me , and I want to start keeping better records here , as well has have regular weekly clinics instead of just coming up here on a casual basis . ’ |
| 13 | Erm do they involve you travelling out there on a regular basis ? |
| 14 | If you are just starting out again on a career or even just looking for a ‘ job ’ , the next exercise is to help you . |
| 15 | But apparently they 're doing quite well on a Wednesday with the students . |
| 16 | We observed that you were travelling excessively slowly on a wide road , unimpeded by any other traffic . |
| 17 | Victoria , aged 12 , made a beeline for the reconstituted orange juice and sandwiches prepared by a pair of stout volunteer ladies who arrived from Russia themselves a few years back , and two-year-old Oleg was soon roaring about wildly on a plastic fire-engine in the playroom . |
| 18 | I could see green sleet falling straight down on a big green ambulance backed up our drive . |
| 19 | Surely wrapping up well on an autumn chill morning was n't considered unmanly ? |
| 20 | Mrs Crump cried to herself , leaning forward now on a Pisan scale . |
| 21 | Many lived in squalor and poverty , went short of food when times were hard and were kept from starvation only by the meagre income they gained from non-farming pursuits , whether sidework or the labour of family members working further afield on a temporary or permanent basis . |
| 22 | She is concentrating very hard on a patch of light on the wall . |