Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 3 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 4 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 6 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 7 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 8 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 9 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 10 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 11 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 12 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 13 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 14 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 15 | You talk about going and — all I was afraid she was going to do — she was coming on to the road so she would run into me ! |
| 16 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's more than likely I just imagined something was going on behind the scenes . |
| 18 | Twenty-four hours after training , there was getting on for a sixty-per-cent increase in the numbers of spines to be found on the dendrites in the left IMHV ( but almost no effect in the right ) . |
| 19 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 20 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 21 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 22 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 23 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 24 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 25 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 26 | At its meeting on 30 October 1990 , the board received a report from Ian Wells , a senior enforcement officer , on the progress of an investigation he was carrying on into the affairs and business of the Winchester Group , an appointed representative of Norwich Union . |
| 27 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |
| 28 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 29 | More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface : |
| 30 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |