Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The audience appeared to be loving every minute Smashing Pumpkins were shambling away on stage . |
| 2 | They were bubbling in the car because they were going away on holiday . |
| 3 | Figures were moving about on deck . |
| 4 | No that 's Dorothy , is n't it , the one that goes we were strolling along on moonlight bay , so you could hear the clouds singing you stole my heart moonlight bay . |
| 5 | Making sure that Ryan was already inside , they entered , sat near him , and began a general chat about land , A saying to B , in a casual roundabout fashion , that if he had any land going in Norfolk to unload it quickly because the councils were clamping down on building regulations and that land in future was to be used for agricultural purposes only . ’ |
| 6 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 7 | Under the Arab League Charter a resolution passed by a majority of votes was binding only on member states voting in favour . |
| 8 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 9 | When the ball hit the back of the net and the players ran towards me , I was wondering how on earth it ended up there . |
| 10 | The earlier one , on the Eurodisc label , was disappointing mainly on account of the choral singing of the Leipzig Radio Chorus which was at best lustreless and at worst inadequate . |
| 11 | I said I could n't stop the night because I was going away on holiday early the next morning . |
| 12 | She was moving back on board Wavebreaker in preparation for the next day 's early departure . |
| 13 | And a drifter would have come out with any soldiers that was coming home on leave and that . |
| 14 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
| 15 | He also said the Government was spending more on law and order and pointed out that since 1984 the length of prison sentences had increased by 31pc for robbery and 73pc for rape . |
| 16 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 17 | Suddenly she realized that she had forgotten she was relying totally on speed speechreading . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the monkey was sitting calmly on top of the roof . |
| 19 | His hair was standing slightly on end , as if he had forgotten to comb it , and he was n't wearing a tie , and it was ridiculous the way her heart lurched just at the sight of him , Lindsey thought . |
| 20 | When he came home he was messing about on pavement for quite a while , I was , I thought somebody was trying to get in , you know |
| 21 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |
| 22 | and I was thinking where on earth is there a shop in that sells , sells things like that or do you have to go to a garage and I 'd forgotten that that fruit |