Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 2 | But they were staying on another week … ’ |
| 3 | On April 21 the Yemeni Deputy Information Minister Amakal Alim Susawa confirmed that Yemen had made a written offer to Saudi Arabia for discussions , after the latter had informed at least four foreign oil companies that they were trespassing on Saudi property . |
| 4 | I thought they were getting on fine . ’ |
| 5 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 6 | They were standing on rough wooden boards . |
| 7 | They were standing on opposite sides of the fallen queen . |
| 8 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 9 | More often , however , navigation engineers were at odds with drainage men , especially when they were working on existing rivers . |
| 10 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 11 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |
| 12 | While they were working on this case there were some things which Nikos had better not know . |
| 13 | Something the Wild Geese used to say — the Irish soldiers who had fled Ireland after that big battle at the end of the seventeenth century when they were dying on foreign battlefields they used to say : ‘ Would that this were for Ireland . ’ |
| 14 | They were sitting on two upturned kegs in the dark of the fo'c'sle — had been sitting for ever and longer , she felt . |
| 15 | They were sitting on opposite sides of the small hollow . |
| 16 | They were sitting on either side of a dying fire . |
| 17 | She was telling them a story , and they were sitting on either side of her on the sofa with their mouths hanging slightly open , Gawain meditatively fingering a lock of her long , dark hair , Damian staring at her and absently scratching his balls . |
| 18 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |
| 19 | and er I mean and these were three young girls , they only just started to work and yet they 'd got a car and as soon as they finished they they were going on this picnic |
| 20 | The three of them were going on one of their rare holidays abroad . |