Example sentences of "that [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 2 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 3 | And then , damn me , it was clear that I was sitting on someone ! |
| 4 | ‘ I began to lose consciousness and felt that I was standing on the world 's edge aside of a high , dark space looking across it , thinking that I was about to enter into it . |
| 5 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 6 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 7 | I knew that she was operating on a matter of some principle , something basic and territorial , something she had been taught , perhaps . |
| 8 | Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen , Annie looked up . |
| 9 | The firm set of Niall Grant 's mouth suggested that she was treading on dangerous ground . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne 's returning senses told her that she was lying on an old-fashioned sofa with a high back at one end , and no sides . |
| 11 | Jake gathered her to him and rolled over on his back , so that she was lying on her stomach on top of him . |
| 12 | anything about coming , and yet Jenny came up and told me that she was coming on Friday , er before I got that letter , got that letter the next day |
| 13 | Yet , looking into those liquid dark eyes , Fran could n't help the sudden feeling that she was standing on the verge of something so mind-blowing that it made her afraid . |
| 14 | It went against the grain to meekly obey , but the look in his eyes told her in no uncertain terms that she was standing on the edge of a minefield . |
| 15 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 16 | This kind of emphasis on the opposition between , rather than the complementary nature of , the active and contemplative lives was reflected in the patristic interpretation of the story of Martha and Mary ( Luke 10:38 — 42 ) in which Christ excuses Mary 's lack of active help in Martha 's household chores because she was listening to him , on the grounds that she was concentrating on that which was most essential . |
| 17 | She reluctantly followed Nicole outside , certain that she was verging on dragging her steps and generally acting like a twelve-year-old delinquent on the way to the principal 's office . |
| 18 | She licked her lips nervously , and realised that she was sitting on the edge of the sofa , staring at him as though her life depended on it . |
| 19 | At least it took her mind off the far less confident emotions that she was feeling on her own account . |
| 20 | And that she was going on Wednesday , I think . |
| 21 | The sun had moved so that it was setting on the roof of the building on the western side of the yard . |
| 22 | Rejecting this accusation , China claimed that it was drilling on the Chinese side of a north-south boundary line in the Gulf of Tonkin agreed in 1887 by China and France , Vietnam 's then colonial ruler . |
| 23 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 24 | But Lokata had not realised that it was treading on a defence secret . |
| 25 | Following news that it was working on an open systems ‘ business specification ’ for commercial users and organisations ( UX No 373 ) , the X/Open Group Co Ltd is at last preparing make good some of the promises it made last year about giving users a bigger say in its affairs . |
| 26 | Following news that it was working on a 64-bit Sparc RISC version of very long instruction word technology ( UX No 381 ) , Bell Atlantic Corp , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , is now claiming that there will be a multi-processing , superscalar Sparc Unix machine around by the end of the year that will incorporate the VLIW Trace scheduling compilers which originated from now defunct Multiflow Computers Inc . |
| 27 | His tongue flicked out to caress her nipple , which was throbbing painfully , and with one anguished movement she pressed his mouth further down so that he was sucking on the rosy tip . |
| 28 | Later , Broderick admits that he was drawing on his own feelings about the death of his actor seven years ago , just as his career was taking off ( ‘ He watched everything I did , he was my big influence , and when I finally started to get work , he never got to see it ’ ) . |
| 29 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 30 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |