Example sentences of "were [v-ing] on [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 2 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 4 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 5 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 6 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 7 | He said we were holding on to the ball , but we wanted it to come out . |
| 8 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 9 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 10 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 11 | But more people were coming on to the paper . |
| 12 | It was raining softly and , because it was early evening , lights were coming on around the airport . |
| 13 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |
| 14 | Two were carrying on at a polytechnic , and one was training to be a teacher at a college of Higher Education . |
| 15 | The family were following on in a state of high Latin hysteria . |