Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 2 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 6 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 7 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 8 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 9 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 10 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 11 | I can stay in there they was sitting on the bleeding ! |