Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How difficult it was to try to keep her feet on the ground , when inside she felt as if she were poised on the brink of a wild and wonderful adventure . |
| 2 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 3 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 4 | She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity . |
| 5 | She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus . |
| 6 | Embarrassed both by her comments and by the expression on her face , Seb squeezed the hand she was resting on the cart in front of her . |
| 7 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 8 | She was featured on the back cover of the Spring edition of Assay . |
| 9 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
| 10 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
| 11 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
| 12 | So er , she phoned the corporation and she asked the man , to , to say she was leaving on the Saturday morning and were they , were they gon na come and er ba er what wi , er , bar up the windows ? |
| 13 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
| 14 | Do you wan na hear erm do you wan na hear Fiona singing ? she was singing on the mike , she was singing yeah really singing you know . |
| 15 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |
| 16 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 17 | She flicked a look at Travis as , without so much as asking her to hold on , Mr Green went away to tell Rosemary that she was wanted on the phone . |
| 18 | They think she was killed on the night she disappeared . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm assuming she was killed on the Saturday , of course , when she first went missing , as we now know . |
| 20 | He descended the stairs two at a time , and before she 'd managed to catch her breath she was deposited on the settee in the living-room and Michele was sitting beside her . |
| 21 | She was kneeling on the floor , wiping her hands together . |
| 22 | She was kneeling on the steps next to the old iron railings that ran along the front of the terrace , her arms supporting the naked body of her little boy , and she was trembling with the effort of holding him still . |
| 23 | They smiled at each other , and Sara felt as if she was balanced on the brink of some great truth , that the world outside the window was waiting for her too , opening up , spreading out into the darkness . |
| 24 | A moment later , realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity , she brought herself up short . |
| 25 | Well she was going on the train . |
| 26 | She was lying on the cushions , smoking a cigarette and paying no attention to him . |
| 27 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 28 | She had clung to the doll tenaciously , until the awful feeling she 'd had once before stole up through her little body from her feet to her head , and the next thing she knew she was lying on the floor with her head in Ma 's lap . |
| 29 | And it was on the floor but she was lying on the bottle . |
| 30 | She was lying on the edge of the bed far from Tom and had not known it was Tom 's bed and Tom 's room or that she was not alone , but had been cast at once , as usual , into that incredulous panic where she was asking herself , how could I have left Mike ? |