Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They heard the muffled thud as the charge blew before they set off to see how others were faring on this southern lock . |
| 2 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 3 | We had so many breakdowns and strange things were going on that one of the guys went to see a medium in Germany . |
| 4 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 5 | ‘ Could you tell us where you were and what you were doing on those three days , please ? ’ he said , instead , levelly and she gave him another sideways , calculating look . |
| 6 | They were standing on rough wooden boards . |
| 7 | Because the tax registers of Poitiers were out of date , heavy burdens were falling on those unable to pay , including widows and orphans . |
| 8 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |
| 9 | I am sure of , many of you ground and air crew members of the Three-Ninetieth , as well as the local citizenry remember what was happening on this very spot . |
| 10 | With no barnacles or mussels to be seen , almost the entire dog-whelk population on Cape Enrage ( New Brunswick , Canada ) was feeding on young edible winkles Littorina littorea in November 1981 ( Crothers , 1983a ) . |
| 11 | Powell had no argument with the principle of starting a magazine , or even over the amount of money it would cost , but he felt that Branson was treading on sensitive political ground in attempting to take advantage of somebody else 's industrial dispute . |
| 12 | The lady was travelling on this particular journey which was subject to many delays owing to permanent way maintenance work , and the passengers were heartily fed up with the hassle . |
| 13 | Sometimes I felt the whole world was converging on this little room . |
| 14 | Yet she was relying on this very power to get her released . |
| 15 | At its zenith the programme was embarking on 8 new projects per year and , despite a slowdown from the breakneck pace of the late 1970s , by 1990 France will have about 70 operating nuclear installations . |
| 16 | He was standing on this big silver pyramid where the stage was . |
| 17 | Lucy could n't find time to come over for an evening ; the globally significant exhibition was floating on some remote iceberg ; Jeremy had an agent , an opening ; Lucy 's sister was ill and needed her ( Jay recalled Lucy 's exasperated indifference to her sister ) ; the painters were coming . |
| 18 | I was working on all this as I cycled . |
| 19 | Mlle Patricia Allemoniere , of the TF1 station , said her team was working on five different projects ; health , housing , education , the election campaign and the three party leaders . |
| 20 | Although he was working on some big accounts — British Gas , Bankers Trust , Harris Queensway and Beecham — he was ambitious and keen for a little more action . |
| 21 | I gather they 're going to tell us he was working on some secret defence project , after all . |