Example sentences of "they [be] [v-ing] on [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why they are staying on this sad occasion is unclear . |
| 2 | They stay on stage to watch the play , with Petruchio 's manipulation of Katherine very obviously mirroring the tricks they are playing on poor Sly . |
| 3 | ( They are standing on some windy street corner , say . ) |
| 4 | I think you need a lot of knowledge , especially nowadays when they 're insisting on all this national curriculum , you 've got to have a very broad ability . |
| 5 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 6 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 7 | They were standing on rough wooden boards . |
| 8 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |