Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] on [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped eating on my return from the summer camp mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | I then filled in a little with some alchemilla flower sprays and some very pretty reddish-grey fronds of grass which I found growing on our compost heap ! |
| 3 | The next morning she came knocking on his door . |
| 4 | Then , in 1982 a certain Richard Branson came knocking on his door . |
| 5 | So Sunday I was nursing myself until you came knocking on my door , and Monday I spent here , pottering about . |
| 6 | I 'm only here for the beer in the first place and , the way I see it , if old skull-face came knocking on my door with his scythe at least I could get my laughing gear around some of that celestial scrumpy ! |
| 7 | The officer suffered grazing on his nose and face . |
| 8 | Léonie picked up the brush and got going on her cousin 's hair . |
| 9 | At every stoppage in the senior game the referee is applauded or jeered depending on which arm he raises to award the put-in , and he is rarely considered correct by everyone . |
| 10 | He smiled to himself rather than to her , the mark of a shy man who was intermittently confident with women , she hoped , rather than the smile also of someone who enjoyed cheating on his expenses . |
| 11 | He grinned and began pulling on his sock . |
| 12 | Tammuz said , and began pulling on his clothes . |
| 13 | With a jerk the coffin began trundling on its conveyor belt towards the curtains and the waiting flame . |
| 14 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |
| 15 | It marks a change of heart for Scorsese , who once swore he would never make a film about the Mafia , and led De Niro to break a few rules of his own : ‘ I was in the middle of filming We 're No Angels when we started to discuss GoodFellas and began working on my role , Jim Conway , together . |
| 16 | The spots started appearing on my chest . |
| 17 | He started counting on his fingers . |
| 18 | It is time they started delivering on their promise . ’ |
| 19 | Fists started hammering on their windows . |
| 20 | When we had the distance we started working on our times . ’ |
| 21 | Then he lay trembling on his stone bed and listened to the clock striking the hours . |
| 22 | They went squelching on their way dropping their money and I was able to get enough for some new feathers for Tony 's hat to replace those he lost when Nutty put his head in the scruncher . |
| 23 | I wake up hating myself and fabricating reasons why I 've had so little sleep — I was woken in the middle of the night by a phone call , my cat kept jumping on my bed all night . |
| 24 | Even if it meant sitting on her doorstep until she either came out of her flat or came home from wherever she was . |
| 25 | The father of modern science , Isaac Newton , was as much at home in the pews receiving blessings from above , as in the orchard wondering why apples kept falling on his head . |
| 26 | A fly was buzzing over my head ad kept settling on my face . |
| 27 | A sergeant then appeared pulling on his trousers . |
| 28 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 29 | The developing influences around them had bearing on their futures ; there was evil and unhappiness in the air . |
| 30 | ‘ But these are her sisters , ’ I said thinking on my feet . |