Example sentences of "[v-ing] [det] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was typing this on the computer ( my VDU is a television set ) , the screen went odd with flashing lines and all the words missing . |
| 2 | incorporating that on the way round . |
| 3 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 4 | simply just not noticing much on the screen really . |
| 5 | Jane Pargeter poured herself another slug of gin and slopped in some tonic water , spilling some on the coffee table . |
| 6 | I 'm writing this on the morning of your ride at Ascot on Pendero . |
| 7 | I am writing this on the train to London , carrying me on smooth , oiled wheels away from the pain , the exhaustion , and , above all , the one worth-while thing I ever did — or tried to do — in my life . |
| 8 | When we were er were living all on the road so we were expecting to be supplied by vans . |
| 9 | Long narrow destination boards with route numbers in small figures at the ends , were slotted into brackets just below the saloon windows , replacing those on the upper deck screens . |
| 10 | I remember growing those on the roof of the shelter . |
| 11 | Imagine accompanying that on the bagpipes ! |
| 12 | We will be leading small groups , praying with and counselling those on the courses and assisting in local outreach to the prison , hospital and streets of Birmingham . |
| 13 | Charles had long since ceased to delude himself that he had any immovable principles on anything , but he felt something approaching that on the subject of abortion . |
| 14 | Doing that on the victim 's head ‘ leaves your hair in one hell of a mess , so after that we all had camomile shampoos from glamorous coiffeuses in white tunics ’ . |
| 15 | No Canadian jokes , please , but doing this on the nation 's behalf just plays up to stereotypes . |
| 16 | Some were still doing this on the eve of war in 1336 . |
| 17 | The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services . |
| 18 | And I 'm taking that on the erm Romeo and Juliet tour . |
| 19 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for putting that on the record . |
| 20 | Yeah , Charlotte you 're not putting that on the walls |
| 21 | The number of Council Tax administrative staff below Senior Assistant level have been arrived at in total by examining the Community Charge case load per member of staff , projecting this on the basis of estimated case load for Council Tax and increasing this by 20% in order to deal with the personal elements of Council Tax , which were previously dealt with by the Community Charge Registration Officer . |
| 22 | So putting those on the graph , you 've got minus one , minus three . |
| 23 | I mean I no , I 'm , I 'm thinking more on the ordinary clerical and that executive stuff , not the jobs . |
| 24 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 25 | I 'm afraid Mr Blackburn has fallen prey to some of the fashionable ideas infecting many on the left , in particular to Europhilia . |
| 26 | This was achieved by altering the mix and concentrating more on the lower-priced er china such as erm chain stores and hotel and airline ware . |