Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King 's actions in August 1931 are sometimes defended with the argument that he was merely acting on the advice of the party leaders . |
| 2 | Duvall was suddenly standing on the step above him , pushing him out of the way and stepping down past him . |
| 3 | I was soon talking on the telephone to Engelberger in Danbury , Connecticut . |
| 4 | Maggie peered through the frost that was already forming on the canopy . |
| 5 | THE PATHOLOGIST WAS already working on the post-mortem . |
| 6 | Another kind of hazard was already looming on the horizon for the weaker peasant elements . |
| 7 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 8 | It was just floating on the surface , not wading or swimming , but unnaturally afloat ; so exhausted it could n't even sit upright . |
| 9 | Lee was just sitting on the floor . |
| 10 | Once it was my turn to hit but I was just sitting on the ground and was thinking about something else . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know , I was just sitting on the grass one day , down by the river . |
| 12 | The skinhead looked up and noticed his new adversary coming to the rescue of the hapless businessman , who was feebly cringing on the ground . |
| 13 | The same might be said of Redon 's frequently alluded to fragility : according to Eisenman he was ever teetering on the brink of depression and death , though this in turn does not explain why the artist lived seventy-five years of life quite satisfactorily . |
| 14 | He hoped fervently that they would go back to Florence and had dropped several hints in the hope of getting this information out of them , but the Captain was always concentrating on the job in hand as if nothing else mattered and the magistrate only smiled and nodded distractedly , his mind apparently elsewhere . |
| 15 | The villages , hamlets and the red-tile-roofed manors boasted their peace and prosperity for Henry was still living on the treasure bequeathed to him by his father . |
| 16 | and I was still riding on the tank |
| 17 | She was still resting on the bed . |
| 18 | Vera grinned back at him ; the young man was still writhing on the floor . |
| 19 | He was still leaning on the rake , gazing along the path towards him and , even at a distance of several yards , Harry could see that he was not mistaken . |
| 20 | I was still chewing on the chunk of meat Taff had given me . |
| 21 | And someone was still tapping on the door . |
| 22 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 23 | Rohmer was still sitting on the edge of the desk , his hair and coat whipping in the hellish stormwinds which had been admitted . |
| 24 | Gilbert had scurried back to Rohmer and Jimmy could see that Rohmer was still sitting on the desk near the back double-doors where they had left him . |
| 25 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 26 | She was still sitting on the ground . |
| 27 | Rachel stood up , brushing twigs and leaves from her clothes , then she turned to David who was still sitting on the bank staring up at her . |
| 28 | He imagined she was still dwelling on the accident . |
| 29 | Coffin was still pondering on the significance of what he had seen written on the piece of paper from Place 's jacket . |
| 30 | He was still pondering on the problem when he drifted into a deep and dreamless sleep . |