Example sentences of "i [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 2 | Holmes and I were sitting on either side of a bright fire in our sitting room in Baker Street . |
| 3 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just … it 's just … that I do n't have many friends and I do feel sort of isolated , I s'pose — ’ I pulled up short , I was trespassing on forbidden ground , getting close to revealing more than I should . |
| 5 | In the end , perhaps because I was embarking on other work , the matter was quietly dropped . |
| 6 | Erm Yes i know I was treading on dodgy ground but we 've got to do something |
| 7 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 8 | I was working on all this as I cycled . |
| 9 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |
| 10 | I had the idea for this design one day when I was working on some embroidery . |
| 11 | I was working on some shoes on the table , and Will picked one up and looked at it . |
| 12 | At fifteen Deborah has a short story published in a collection and hopes to be a writer ; we had already met whilst I was working on another book . |
| 13 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 14 | On the seats we 'll call it , on the seats of the rowing boat , I was standing on that and my father said to me when I got aboard , do n't do that no more , he said , cos he say if that paddle , what we call the paddle , come out of that sculling hole , he said you 'll go over the side and the boat will go away from you , he said , you 'll be bloody well drowned , which was right never forgot it never . |