Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 2 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 3 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |
| 4 | Perched on the tailboard of a tiny wooden malabar pulled by two short-legged Cambodian ponies , Senator Nathaniel Sherman was puffing reflectively on a Havana cigar as he surveyed the early morning scene . |
| 5 | Someone was balancing precariously on a ladder , inserting four-foot candles into gilt sockets on the wall while his partner was hanging gold balloons and purple streamers below . |
| 6 | It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday . |
| 7 | An anthropologist who by chance was travelling recently on a ferry during a battle between Manchester United and West Ham fans observed a distinct similarity with the ritual warfare of tribal societies . |
| 8 | My mother was sitting here on a chair yeah , when I come home from there . |
| 9 | Then one day I was standing there on a dune top , straining against the pull of the wind in the kite , gripping and hauling and sensing and adjusting and twisting , when one of those twists became like a strangle around Esmerelda 's neck , and the idea was there . |
| 10 | They wore the motley coat of jesters and one of them was hopping around on a hobby horse . |
| 11 | Further unhappiness and a similar rift were generated over opinion and strategy in defence , where de Gaulle was striking out on a path different from that of the other Western allies , a path that culminated in the withdrawal of France from the NATO military command structure in 1966 , necessitating the removal of NATO headquarters from Paris to Brussels . |