Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 2 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 3 | Apparently he was fidgeting on parade and the Sergeant Major screamed at him , ‘ Stand still , you idle little monarch ! ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps he was calling on his sexton , Albert Piggott , or on Harold Shoosmith nearby . |
| 5 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 6 | Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car , but this is what all motorists do . |
| 7 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 8 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 9 | Yesterday she was trying on her new school uniform . |
| 10 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 11 | A few minutes later I was standing on Miss Vulcan 's doorstep . |
| 12 | Ten minutes later she was speeding on her way to the airfield . |
| 13 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 14 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 15 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 16 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 17 | It was only a few steps , but now she was leaning on his arm for steadiness rather than support . |
| 18 | Now she was relying on me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've told you only the truth , my lovely one , ’ he breathed , and this time Fabia raised her head and kissed him , then found that she was the one being kissed , so expertly too that when eventually Ven pulled back she was feeling on a totally different plane . |
| 20 | Now it was sleeping on the bed . |
| 21 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 22 | Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet . |
| 23 | He had moved , rolled away from her , and now he was pulling on his clothes , his actions feverish , his hands shaking slightly . |
| 24 | Some years ago I was travelling on a train from Liverpool to Southport . |
| 25 | Well she was going on the train . |
| 26 | Today he was signing on the dole . |
| 27 | ‘ You thought maybe I was planning on swimming all the way to Africa ? ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 29 | Of how she was lying on the ground , for example ? ’ |
| 30 | and then she was girning on the phone because |