Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 2 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 3 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 4 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 5 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 6 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 7 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 8 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 9 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 10 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 11 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 12 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 13 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 14 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 15 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 16 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 17 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 18 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 20 | He was in highly sociable mood and , bereft of any equals , was addressing me on the subject of the decline of western civilisation and the loss of old standards . |
| 21 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 22 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 23 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 24 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 25 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 26 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 27 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 28 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 29 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 30 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |