Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 2 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 3 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 4 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 5 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 6 | If you were n't have said ooh I was listening on the phones and just a leave it on , you know the phones . |
| 7 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 8 | She said and Bobby says she do n't he said I was laying on the floor the other night and she came down beside with me and put her arm round me as we were laying there he said I 'll never do anything he said cos if you started playing about with her she 'll , you know childlike and and he said she would n't erm show her affection any more . |
| 9 | I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with ! |
| 10 | I was reading on the bed . |
| 11 | Everyone else had gone and I was practising on the putting green . |
| 12 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 13 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |
| 14 | I met him quite by chance when I was rambling on the shore . |
| 15 | ‘ When I got home last night and found the yard door bolted I thought the old man had deliberately locked me out but the police reckon that whoever killed father was with him then — while I was banging on the door , trying to get in . ’ |
| 16 | I was meaning on the soil . |
| 17 | I do n't know sir , I was concentrating on the door . |
| 18 | I used to go to work fearful of the dialogue I was putting on the screen . |
| 19 | I was sitting on the deck , my back exposed to the sun . |
| 20 | I was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the news travelled from passenger to passenger : ‘ The president of the United States has been shot . ’ |
| 21 | But I was sitting on the sands of Ke Iki at midnight with a fairy-tale princess , a Botticelli Venus whose long blonde tresses reflected golden glints from the fire . |
| 22 | I WAS sitting on the other side of the fence with a vengeance on Friday evening , when I joined a large and motley chorus to sing Hiawatha 's Wedding Feast by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor . |
| 23 | One day I was sitting on the roof with Chola and Mina , shelling wild walnuts for oil . |
| 24 | When my husband came in , bringing the new neighbours with him , I was sitting on the floor , one foot wedged in the lavatory basin , and with the broken seat round my neck ! |
| 25 | I was sitting on the wall between our yard and the next , so I could hear every word . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ I was sitting on the edge of my seat , jumping up and down , shouting , ‘ If you win it 's because you try and if you lose you must not cry ’ . |
| 27 | I could smell her scent , very sharp and close , through the fog and dog smells at the foot of the lamp-post where I was sitting on the ground . |
| 28 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 29 | I was sitting on the floor of the pantry , in my special place , drawing and feeling a little sad . |
| 30 | " It never occurred to me till yesterday , Mr Feather , when I was sitting on the seat and she smiled at me . |