Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was therefore likely to have been driving through Theale late on Sunday . |
| 2 | The shy young visitor was soon disputing with Wordsworth almost on equal terms ; and next evening , while Coleridge was providing Dorothy with superfluous explanations about the different notes of the nightingale , Hazlitt and Wordsworth ‘ got into a metaphysical argument ’ which may have inspired two of the most genial of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Expostulation and Reply ’ , and ‘ The Tables Turned ’ , both of them written ‘ in front of the house at Alfoxden ’ . |
| 3 | Returning to Ottery late on 4 October , Mr Coleridge gave a ‘ long & particular account ’ of his journey , before going to bed in high spirits . |
| 4 | The other side of that is that I was listening to Medicine Now on Radio Four , and they 've got a device where they you actually have er an earpiece put into your ear and it clicks continuously . |
| 5 | The norw. international is heading for London already on wednesday . |
| 6 | Margaret had a Presbyterian upbringing , going to church twice on Sundays but lost her faith when she was just 13 . |
| 7 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ Are we going to work together on this ? ’ |
| 9 | I learned that he was going to London early on the following day , so I asked him to meet me before he went . |
| 10 | The rental for the first year would be £250 rising to £500 thereafter on an annual licence . |
| 11 | The Pope spoke these words , which allow the Soviet leader a suitable period for reflection , before travelling to Asia yesterday on a 10-day visit . |
| 12 | In each case we may trace from them important effects on learning in schools today on the curriculum plans , on policy and programmes for teacher training and , most significant , on the attitudes of teachers themselves and of those who train them . |
| 13 | The menu , judging from plates already on tables , was surprisingly sophisticated for such an out-of-the-way establishment . |
| 14 | And they 're intervening of course here on the side of a revolt which is going against the grain of erm of certainly for Russia of course of er of of the attitudes of the eighteen erm er eighteen teens early eighteen twenties . |
| 15 | No chance of bumping into Helen accidentally on purpose at the bus stop now , is there ? |
| 16 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 17 | She sometimes wondered if he ever gave her a thought between departing from Taipei early on Monday mornings and his Friday evening returns . |