Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While most of use were struggling to stay on the roads , the all-wheel-drive cars swanned along with barely a feather ruffled . |
| 2 | The Chelsea keeper produced three top-class stops before half-time as Boro threatened to break open the defensive grip Chelsea were looking to keep on the game . |
| 3 | And indeed the frayed scrappy edges he had cut off from his trousers were lying strewn on the floor , in the middle of the room for everyone to see ! |
| 4 | I kept wondering what it had to do with the cowboy we were going to see on the screen . |
| 5 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |
| 6 | Below them , Dr Ali 's boys were getting started on the ten times table . |
| 7 | By 1767 his method was becoming known on the European mainland , where it was recommended by Sir John Pringle [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 9 | Armenia was refusing to participate on the basis of fears that the new Union Treaty would enshrine neighbouring Azerbaijan 's right to the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region . |
| 10 | The rubber wheels of the chair she was pushing squeaked on the tiled floor as she passed behind me and then I felt a hand on my inner left thigh . |
| 11 | She drew a blanket over Midnight , who was lying huddled on the floor , and went to get straw for a bed . |
| 12 | Since he had , like them , done all these things , it was an easy step for ageing trendies — who hated the cultural conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George Bush — to believe that he was going to act on the things that most concerned them . |
| 13 | She 'd already decided what she was going to cook for Rohan — home-made tomato soup to begin with , then le rosbif with all the trimmings , although she was going to cheat on the dessert and buy one of the beautifully glazed tartes aux pommes from a pâtisserie . |
| 14 | Then , one day , he announced that he was going to check on the sheep . |
| 15 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 16 | The fingers , however , still did n't function and the hospital was going to amputate on the following Wednesday . |
| 17 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 18 | She was beginning to tire on the stairs . |
| 19 | The bookshop was still open , and now , in addition to the paperbacks , the little magazines , and the Village Voice , the new wave of American papers was beginning to appear on the shelves . |
| 20 | I also understood , from little hints dropped here and there , that he wanted to get out of the country while his music was starting to impinge on the public . |
| 21 | Diana , an unwilling international media celebrity , was having to learn on the hoof . |
| 22 | He was standing leaning on the console , a huge grin on his face . |
| 23 | None of this sat very well with a party which was trying to settle on the left . |
| 24 | One morning when Sara was trying to concentrate on The Imitation of Christ , João came to her door . |
| 25 | But then she was planning to go on the stage and was already reputed to be collecting points for the Equity card . |