Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but I mean I I I was planning on having a break in the middle but y most of you voted and you wanted a break at the start but perhaps it would 've , but then you you 'd have been going straight on from s w phonetics |
| 2 | The driver of the dust-cart , the driver of the bus , and the husband were all held to have been negligent , the husband because of the dangerous manner in which he was riding on the dust-cart . |
| 3 | He tries to remember accurately Flaubert , which he was combing on the plane : ‘ Their indifferent glances told him of passion dulled by daily satisfaction . ’ |
| 4 | He was delayed by an accident to the Imperial Airways ' HP.42 on which he was flying on the Kisumu-Cairo-Karachi sector . |
| 5 | Did n't I tell you I was working on it ? ’ |
| 6 | Besides , Simon 's door was the one she was counting on : she did n't need any other escape route . |
| 7 | It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie 's jackets , but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder , which those trying to clear his name now want released . |
| 8 | Colette and Bernard self-published works about matters holistic and mystical , and Ken relaxed when I told him I was working on a thriller . |
| 9 | Not when he 's told me he was playing on somebody else 's table and not gon na have a game . |
| 10 | I mean he she was going on that tape about she had to replace some things . |
| 11 | By the end of it he was standing on his own , and I said to my mother , ‘ Why did you do that ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Trying to get a little love on the subject , that 's what I was doing on ‘ Ragged Glory ’ , exploring this neighbourhood that 's like a valley or something . |
| 13 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 14 | wondering what I was doing on the twenty seventh . |
| 15 | So that fits in quite well I could n't remember what I was doing on Monday but we said , sort of tentatively Monday would be probably quite a good day I think . |
| 16 | which is what I was relying on it |
| 17 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 18 | I was also diverted , watching the film on video , by what she was writing on her official papers . |
| 19 | However , she hid what she was feeling on the subject , and asked the simple question , ‘ How ? ’ |
| 20 | It was not till nine days ago that at last I found her , and saw what she was doing on her isle . ’ |
| 21 | Did she mention what she was doing on that road on her own ? ’ |
| 22 | I wanted to know what she was doing on Phraxos , where she came from , the reality behind all the mystery . |
| 23 | And had Leith any compunction about what she was doing on her own behalf , because it was for sure that , having given her an ultimatum , Naylor Massingham would create hell on the day he learned — as , sure as her name was not Rosemary , one day he must — that he had claimed her as his girlfriend for nothing , then that compunction vanished without trace . |
| 24 | It was impossible , from this distance , to see what he was wearing on his feet , but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes , because in his right hand he was holding a large , brown , elastic-sided boot . |
| 25 | One can hardly go up to an admiral of the fleet and ask him what he was doing on the night of Friday the thirteenth . |
| 26 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 27 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 28 | People kept asking him what he was doing on Uist ; Lewis was further north , ha ha . |
| 29 | She asked what he was doing on the planet . |
| 30 | Firwood Bootle 's skipper Ian Cockbain knew what he was doing on a soft unpredictable Aigburth pitch when he declared at what seemed an easy target at Liverpool . |