Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was living on dry crusts and frost-bitten potatoes . |
| 2 | He was living on two levels at that time . |
| 3 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 4 | Right now , he was overdosing on both . |
| 5 | He was staying on Sula Sgeir with the guga hunters to make observations in his official capacity . |
| 6 | He was getting on fine with the Founders . |
| 7 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 8 | Minton bought him a motorbike and he was travelling on this to a match with the All Blacks when he had an accident . |
| 9 | He was running on three legs and holding me in the fourth . |
| 10 | He was sitting on one of the kitchen counters , paws folded , tail tucked up , gazing with stately patience at the larger door . |
| 11 | I saw him this morning but he was sitting on another table . |
| 12 | He was again conscious of where he was : in the room of his own apartment , on the third floor of a large house , he was sitting on this Sunday afternoon , an ageing man , old not in years , but in their disappointments . |
| 13 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 14 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 15 | As champion , he was banking on 80 per cent of the purse — around £6.7 million — for the fight in Las Vegas , but manager Frank Maloney claimed that promoter Don King was trying to force a 75-25 split . |
| 16 | The stool he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground . |
| 17 | He was standing on this big silver pyramid where the stage was . |
| 18 | He is a partner in a sports marketing company , Mitchell-Moore Associates , and returned recently from the United States where he was working on 1994 World Cup projects . |
| 19 | At the same time as he was working on individual buildings , King produced his lists of all the castles in Wales and the Marches , as well as more detailed papers on the counties of Breconshire and Cardiganshire . |
| 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 . |
| 22 | But Lillie 's theme in 1965 was conservation , so he was working on both topics simultaneously . |
| 23 | She had this pervert on and he was going on all through everything you know what I mean ? |
| 24 | One detective told TODAY : ‘ He was going on overseas trips , he dressed in designer suits . |
| 25 | there and I said no my handsome you did n't pick that up and the case fell , fell to bi he , cos he was going on this is inferior not up to standard and so I said |