Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was astonished when I was told they did n't want anyone from Scotland for they were only taking on Irish staff . |
| 2 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 3 | He was only gone a minute , and when he returned , it was with a couple in their fifties who were holding hands as if they were desperately hanging on to reality . |
| 4 | You were crying , you were just getting on were n't you , you were just getting on ? |
| 5 | You were crying , you were just getting on were n't you , you were just getting on ? |
| 6 | You were just getting on ? |
| 7 | You were just getting on , were n't you ? |
| 8 | You were just getting on . |
| 9 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 10 | Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports . |
| 11 | We were just carrying on . |
| 12 | Presumably , behind many of the net curtains in Wimbledon Park Road things as strange , or even stranger , were always going on . |
| 13 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 14 | Granny 's neighbours were still looking on , watching for further developments , because they all knew Mum 's temper . |
| 15 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 16 | Talks were still going on between Knighton and his stockbrokers Laing & Cruickshank last night to prepare an offer document before tonight 's midnight deadline . |
| 17 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 18 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 19 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 20 | ( We were probably sitting on about three feet of dried dung , crumbly and friable . ) |
| 21 | So I know when , when the ne the negotiations were originally going on was with Lyons ' coffee , for one of their coffees which came from a particular known estate not for the whole range of Lyons ' coffees . |
| 22 | This august body had been responsible for placing the bench we were now sitting on . |
| 23 | After a couple of days , me and me mother were n't getting on , so she hoyed me out . |
| 24 | In the end he is n't they who , he sued the insurance company and this , the er solicitor he had were n't getting on very good and they suggested this bloke and he got onto it and he got on it , fifteen thousand quid out of sixteen thousand quids . |
| 25 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 26 | Crazily , it was Rangers who were then holding on — but Sinton finally secured the points they barely deserved with his third . |
| 27 | I was told that only about one-quarter of the students at institutes of higher education in Beijing were actually getting on with their studies and many of these were motivated solely by the desire to go abroad . |
| 28 | Er and they were actually bringing on there own unemployment . |
| 29 | The defence lawyer for a captain of the Fijian army ( who was convicted in 1990 of planning the abduction of university lecturer Dr Anirudh Singh ) said that his client ‘ was merely passing on … = the skills he got overseas ’ . |
| 30 | The gossip was that the farmer who owned the land was merely hanging on till the price came up to his requirements , then some builder would carve out of the hillside a super executive-type estate , with views for fifteen miles and mortgages for fifty years . |