Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 2 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 3 | The two bodies were lying face down on the grass a few yards apart . |
| 4 | This was a land where the pursuit of illusion possessed the artists ; where awkward tries at perspective were made , and revellers in scenes of feasting were shown sitting up on one elbow , on daybeds with legs disposed for the first time in recession . |
| 5 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 6 | There was a lot of noise ; people were getting bets down on the first pair . |
| 7 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 8 | Hundreds of funeral guests were beginning to filter in on foot from the outlying corners of the kingdom , bringing sacrificial fighting cocks , pigs and magnificently decked-out water-buffalo . |
| 9 | The night 's events were beginning to catch up on them . |
| 10 | Nothing more was heard of Cargo , who were rumoured to be considering dropping the loaves outside Dutch territorial waters , until a month ago a number of loaves of bread were found washed up on the Dutch coast . |
| 11 | Commanding officers were asked to clamp down on harmful initiation ceremonies , and ‘ agony aunts ’ from the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service were installed to provide a sympathetic hearing for bullied soldiers . |
| 12 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 13 | The A.A. defences continued to take toll of attackers , 9/St.G 1 having a Ju87B so badly damaged over Valetta that the crew were forced to bale out on return to Sicily , while a second aircraft from this Staffel failed to return , Uffz . |
| 14 | At the end of the war government assistance was withdrawn and local Bureaux were left to scrape along on what they could glean from local authorities and other sources . |
| 15 | One or two offers of touring productions or guest star status in provincial reps came in , a sure sign that their managements were trying to cash in on the name of Michael Banks before it was completely forgotten . |
| 16 | ‘ Huh , ’ said Angalo , nonchalantly trying to swivel around in the chair in case any tentacled things with teeth were trying to creep up on him . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 18 | Almost all of us were trying to catch up on our homework , although the tram was much too bumpy for anyone to write anything . |
| 19 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 20 | Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Sunni Moslem Jamiat-i-Islami , took over the presidency of the interim government on June 28 from Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , despite earlier suggestions that Mujjaddedi was seeking to go back on the April 24 Peshawar power-sharing accord reached by seven Sunni Moslem mujaheddin groups in Pakistan following the overthrow of the Soviet-backed Najibullah regime [ see pp. 38847 ; 38915 ] . |
| 21 | Anthony — the ‘ h ’ is n't silent , you have to lisp it — from The Chili Peppers was seen hobbling around on crutches today . |
| 22 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 23 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 24 | Alice was lying propped up on pillows . |
| 25 | I was lying face down on the ground . |
| 26 | His admonition was unnecessary , for Robbie chose that moment to black out , and the next thing she knew she was lying face down on the canal bank , with Fen applying rough but effective resuscitation techniques . |
| 27 | The bedroom door was pushed right back and , from where she was lying stretched out on her reclining chair , Bella could see him climbing through the window . |
| 28 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 29 | ‘ I was attempting to get up on my feet and if my boot caught Bob Jackson then it was accidental . |
| 30 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |