Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no hint then that the Mail was running on such a short fuse . |
| 2 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |
| 3 | A revolution was going on that had absolutely nothing to do with the streets of Brooklyn or the Bronx . |
| 4 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 5 | And during the last two centuries , especially when Britain had strong ties with India and the Indian sub-continent and the trade was flourishing on those routes . |
| 6 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 7 | Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room . |
| 8 | The shadow was turning on that landing , moving up the next set of stairs after them . |
| 9 | The Beveridge Report was revealing on this . |
| 10 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 11 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 12 | I looked through the bedroom and this chap was standing on this Mini , jumping up and down . |