Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
2 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
3 | So everything was riding on the last day … |
4 | A stronger possibility was that Lorton had left something which incriminated Dougal on or around the body , and was relying on the next passer-by to report the corpse to the police . |
5 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
6 | She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point . |
7 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |