Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His best attempt at negotiating the distance between admiration of the poetry and dislike for the individual who created it is this metaphor , in his introduction : ‘ When he found his authentic voice in the late 1940s , the beautiful flowers of his poetry were already growing on long stalks out of pretty dismal ground ’ — a botanical conceit designed to leave Larkin soiled , but the poetry ready for picking . |
| 2 | In arguing their case the LNA were clearly drawing on those traditions of philanthropy which emphasized the central role of women in the reform of moral conditions . |
| 3 | Swift-Hook estimated that about 30 per cent of the CEGB 's researchers were then working on Pressurized Water Reactors . |
| 4 | These extinct groups can exceed crinoids in number and variety at certain horizons , and they were evidently competing on equal terms . |
| 5 | Caution is necessary , however , because not all of these activities were certainly going on all the time . |
| 6 | During their policy work on Mezey , NETRHA officers had initially thought they were significantly underspending on mental health . |
| 7 | In the south of the county , it was only beginning on some manors in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth , while on others it did not occur until the sixteenth and seventeenth . |
| 8 | Perdita did n't think she could eat another thing , but the figs in syrup that followed were so delicious she was soon piling on great dollops of cream . |
| 9 | Although unfounded rumours were circulating that the military planned to declare martial law , Carlson knew a full scale military conflict was already unfolding on Byzantine . |
| 10 | In 457 , when she was already fighting on two fronts , in Egypt and in the first Peloponnesian War , Athens made an alliance with Segesta ( ML 37 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I was just going on 14 and I went to my first gig the Stray Cats . |
| 12 | actually caught with , I think he was just starting on that when Mike come down , er but , he got it out this magazine rack because it was at the back of there I put it , cos it 's this year 's the others I 've got upstairs in a drawer |
| 13 | Can you remember what it was like managing on that amount of money ? |
| 14 | She was always writing on little pieces of paper , which she kept in a locked drawer in her room , and every morning she got up surprisingly early to go down to the kitchen . |
| 15 | Then I had to come back — and into this — and do you know — ’ ( he leant towards her ) ‘ even now I close my eyes and think of her , otherwise I ca n't make love — ’ He was still living on that charmed island of experience in the past . |
| 16 | At the beginning of his latest resurrection , he was still insisting on wooden rackets , which , flattering though it was to the Cambridge stockists who were able to supply him , made Borg look a little like something out of an Ealing Comedy . |
| 17 | She was still pondering on this mystery when a low whistle came from the other side of the ditch . |
| 18 | Two days later , the body was still appearing on different beats . |
| 19 | With only ten days to go , this was a disaster ( not that I 'm blaming the Council — there was probably misunderstanding on both sides ; I had no idea they worked on such a miniscule budget , and they for their part probably expected expenditure in the hundreds , rather than the thousands . |
| 20 | He was also working on Cornish subjects based on drawings made the previous March when he , Eric Verrico and Bobby Hunt had gone down to Mevagissey , where Nessie Dunsmuir was living alone whilst Sydney Graham was in America . |
| 21 | He was simultaneously working on two projects : a glossary of regional expressions and slang terminology , so far mostly from London ; and a Gothic novel . |
| 22 | The difference between this and the Marley one is that with Marley we did n't really have any poster work , it was mainly concentrating on black and white photography . |
| 23 | With a lighter heart , she would tell Maisie of her other child , Cissie , who was now going on thirteen , a lovely girl who was the same forthright and delightful character as her mam before her . |
| 24 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 25 | What he had just said hit her like a douche of cold water , and instantly Leith , while wanting to hammer the living daylights out of him , — although still forgetful of her tenuous job position — was otherwise working on full brain power . |