Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no chilled Cristal champagne or smoked salmon and the floodlights could hardly be dimmed but , David , the night was full of excitement and emotions were running on four-star . |
| 2 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 3 | When boats were travelling on improved sections they would go in pairs . |
| 4 | We had so many breakdowns and strange things were going on that one of the guys went to see a medium in Germany . |
| 5 | The movies were advancing on several fronts and the social theme was but one strand in a more complex whole . |
| 6 | Oh , the solemn woods over which the light and shadow travelled swiftly , as if Heavenly wings were sweeping on benignant errands through the summer air ; the smooth green slopes , the glittering water , the garden where the flowers were so sympathetically arranged in clusters of the richest colours , how beautiful they looked ! |
| 7 | She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools . |
| 8 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 9 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 10 | Many of these birds were feeding on tiny crabs with which the sands were teeming . |
| 11 | The report also claimed that CCP study groups were working on detailed analyses of Gorbachev 's " revisionism " . |
| 12 | The transit baggage had not been loaded and customs officials and police were insisting on all cases being opened and everything laid out on the floor . |
| 13 | Pairs of RIC men were patrolling on each side of the wide thoroughfare and , though to Jacob they were of no more account than any other pedestrians , he realised that Deirdre could not feel so unconcerned . |
| 14 | Two men were ploughing on one of the hills , and though they escaped with their lives , their ploughs were destroyed and three of their horses struck dead . |
| 15 | In 1975 , two nature lovers were boating on one of the bay 's rivers . |
| 16 | Both sides were spying on each other quite openly in the course of which many aggressive situations had occurred with loss of spy aircraft and their crews . |
| 17 | As had been the case during the Exclusion Crisis , Tories and Anglicans repeatedly argued that the Nonconformists were acting on popish principles in seeking to destroy both Church and State . |
| 18 | Twelve hares were roasting on forked twigs over a charcoal fire . |
| 19 | They heard the muffled thud as the charge blew before they set off to see how others were faring on this southern lock . |
| 20 | Because the tax registers of Poitiers were out of date , heavy burdens were falling on those unable to pay , including widows and orphans . |