Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pulled down my damp bloomers and changed them for a warm , dry pair that were hanging on the line over the fire . |
| 2 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 3 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 4 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 5 | They were getting on a bit when I was born . ’ |
| 6 | If I were taking on a new act , their ability to perform on stage would be second only to the quality of their songwriting . |
| 7 | His green eyes were taking on a bluish tinge and hers were going green with so much exchanging of deep looks . |
| 8 | The trees of the Dean on the distant bank were taking on a blue haze in the glorious afternoon sun . |
| 9 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 10 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 11 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales were putting on a brave front today . |
| 12 | so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera . |
| 13 | A steward with grey hair and neat moustache waved me rather wearily into the cockpit where the pilot and co-pilot were carrying on a violently gestured argument which was to last all the way to Puerto Maldonaldo . |
| 14 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |
| 15 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 16 | She hesitated , looking at her mother , who was hanging on every word , then at Wycliffe . |
| 17 | It was an effort to reach up for my dressing-gown which was hanging on the back of the door and I felt bitter against Richard because he did n't see that I was ill and come to help me . |
| 18 | Burton describes being ‘ between the two men I most feared ’ but nevertheless , and with all that was hanging on the part , he went back for more . |
| 19 | He walked as far as the cart , took a packet of cigarettes from his jacket that was hanging on the tailgate and stood , sullenly smoking . |
| 20 | It was hanging on the wall , and when he applied it to the p'tar 's rump the beast screamed once , as if outraged , and then it trotted sedately out of the stall and allowed itself to be backed between the shafts of the cart . |
| 21 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 22 | Like to catch something that was hanging on the tree , no one would catch it and hang there . |
| 23 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 24 | Perhaps she was getting on a little too well without me . |
| 25 | He was getting on a bit , transferred in to the Mounted . |
| 26 | ‘ He was getting on a bit , was n't he ? ’ |
| 27 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 28 | The curia was taking on a new role , as the centre of a vast network of appeals ; increasing numbers from near and far came to Rome in search of judgement . |
| 29 | Corvan 's career was sufficiently close to the industrial conflict and Chartist agitation of the turbulent 1840s to draw inspiration from them ; but , by the 1850s , the musical culture of most British workers was taking on a less class-specific quality , characterized by the consumption of commercially supplied music hall song , the replacement of old tune-types by newer types originating in bourgeois theatre and drawing-room , and a shift from protest , street music and spontaneous singsong to formalized performance in choirs and brass bands . |
| 30 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |