Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 10 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 15 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 16 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 17 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 18 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 19 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 20 | She intercepted Dieter just as he was emerging on to the terrace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the |