Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone else had gone and I was practising on the putting green . |
| 2 | Well I tell you what I was doing , I was in the stern of the boat coming ashore with one oar in the stern of the boat , I was like hell you know , and I was standing on the sculling . |
| 3 | He 'd put a couple of cattle on this owd cart ; and I was a-pulling on 'em up , helping his horse , a-tracing on him . |
| 4 | Tony went as fast as he could , and I was concentrating on staying on board as we rattled over the bumpy paths . |
| 5 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 6 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 7 | Mid afternoon and I was climbing on the Ben . |
| 8 | All her hair had dropped out in the night and she was choking on it . ’ |
| 9 | In the picture , Miss Ray was wearing a very short skirt and she was sitting on a swing . |
| 10 | and she 'd got a table in front of her and she was sitting on the settee and the table in front of her and this new jigsaw , over a hundred pieces in it and there she was lady |
| 11 | It was a warm , sunny afternoon four years ago , and she was lying on her back in the park feeling too weak to move . |
| 12 | She was very old and she was lying on her back , her feet towards me . |
| 13 | Sara curtsied , and backed to the door ; and it was only when it had closed behind her and she was standing on the long , tiled landing that she realized that her future mother-in-law had not once asked about her family in Ireland . |
| 14 | The road suddenly appeared through the thinning trees and Jenna had to scramble down a bank , cross a ditch and she was standing on the firm tarmac of the main highway . |
| 15 | Her part in Share My Lettuce had done as much for her own theatrical career as the show had done for Ken , and she was embarking on a series of films that would make her an international reputation . |
| 16 | He had this boat called Stormy Petrel and he was living on it . |
| 17 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 18 | If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too ! |
| 19 | It shows that something stupid and it just went , spine , and he was sitting on the pavement out there for three or four minutes in agony , |
| 20 | It was ten minutes brisk walk to the Embassy , and he was waiting on the corner as Hannele approached . |
| 21 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 22 | She had this pervert on and he was going on all through everything you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | And he was standing on a chair . ’ |
| 24 | Minton bought him a motorbike and he was travelling on this to a match with the All Blacks when he had an accident . |
| 25 | And he was walking on his hands in the very next room this very minute . |
| 26 | One note paused on Creed 's shoulder , then launched itself again , one long swoop sideways , a flip , and it was lying on the ground . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But I was working on it . |
| 30 | She knew what to expect from the cykeman , but she was counting on his not knowing what to expect from her . |