Example sentences of "she was [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 2 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 5 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 6 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 7 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 8 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 9 | She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion . |
| 10 | In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR . |
| 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 . |