Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the computers were cracking up on the factory floor this morning . ’ |
| 2 | At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas . |
| 3 | Little clusters of guests were standing about on the cobblestones between the houses , looking at a loss . |
| 4 | I have known a fox earth populated with a family of cubs while small rabbits were running around on the surface nearby . |
| 5 | There were puffins everywhere : the sky was full of whirring wings , and hundreds of birds were standing around on the grassy slope which was honeycombed with puffin burrows . |
| 6 | Bees were moving about on the bluebells . |
| 7 | My voice had risen a good half-octave and my hands were waggling around on the end of my arms as though I was trying to shake off bits of Sellotape . |
| 8 | The snowflakes were caking up on the dried grasses and ferns on either bank . |