Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 2 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 3 | I WAS sitting on the other side of the fence with a vengeance on Friday evening , when I joined a large and motley chorus to sing Hiawatha 's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . |
| 4 | I was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the news travelled from passenger to passenger : ‘ The president of the United States has been shot . ’ |
| 5 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 6 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
| 7 | Well , sorry Jack , I was going on the previous figures which |
| 8 | We met in 1963 when I was working on the Daily Express 's William Hickey column , and Peter was writing on the Sunday Express . |
| 9 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 10 | Erm we had gone down to , to , to Bognor to the christening of her , our nephew and she was n't too , th that was in November , it was sort of middle of November , and something was going wrong there and so when I , when I was retiring on the twenty seventh of November she could n't come in and er |
| 11 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 12 | Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend … |
| 13 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 14 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
| 15 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 16 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 17 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the top deck and was cut and bruised by branches . |
| 19 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 20 | Unaware of his presence , she was sitting on the soft springy turf , leaning back against the ancient wall of the summer-house and gazing dreamily across the blue haze of the estuary . |
| 21 | There was Boa Island , of the baleful idols , for we were staying on the inward side of Ulster 's wall , the Dartry Mountains and the great haunted head of Benbulbin . |
| 22 | We were standing on the black-veined grey marble stairs of the Twentieth-Century Building . |
| 23 | ‘ We were driving on the main road out of Fernley , I think … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 25 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats . |
| 28 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 29 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 30 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |