Example sentences of "was [v-ing] on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So everything was riding on the last day
2 A stronger possibility was that Lorton had left something which incriminated Dougal on or around the body , and was relying on the next passer-by to report the corpse to the police .
3 The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car .
4 She wrote a long and intimate letter to Eleanor describing her state of mind and her new and disturbing sense of isolation , but Eleanor was working on the first draft of her first novel , and replied at length but not to the point .
5 Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead .
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