Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He snatched it back hastily and then looked up to where Cardiff and Barbara were hanging on to each other under the storm 's onslaught , coughing and choking in the shower of plaster . |
| 2 | The way they were hanging on to each other when I caught them , it 's very easy to believe . ’ |
| 3 | And Rob and John and Liz were hanging on to it somebody was going to pick it up were n't they ? |
| 4 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 5 | As the very last mouthful disappeared , a tremendous cheer rose up from the audience and children were leaping on to their chairs and yelling and clapping and shouting , ‘ Well done , Brucie ! |
| 6 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 7 | Judy Little , human resources director of Longman and chairwoman of the Publishing Qualifications Board , announced that increasing numbers of publishers were signing on for NVQs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 10 | This suggests that both groups of children were adding on to the larger digit a number of steps equal in value to the smaller digit . |
| 11 | She held a damp , grey cloth in her lap and tears were pouring on to it . |
| 12 | Britain under Harold Macmillan was booming and new Austins and Morrises were flooding on to the country 's antiquated roads . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 15 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 16 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 17 | You said , you were going on about , something about , when they sing oh Garrot Turbo sticker |
| 18 | you were going on about that |
| 19 | Couple of weeks ago they were going on about erm Essex . |
| 20 | what I thought you were going on about . |
| 21 | And I , and you , you were going on about something to do with your job yeah ? |
| 22 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 23 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 24 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 25 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 26 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 27 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 28 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 29 | Yes that 's what he told me , he said we were going on to for the rest of the week , eleven hours and then start double shifting Monday . |
| 30 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |