Example sentences of "if [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 2 | I return to the Island as if I was going on evening shift : catch a 188 to Greenwich Church Street , cross the harbour beside the Cutty Sark , slip under the river through the Foot Tunnel . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a wonderful feeling — as if I was walking on air . ’ |
| 4 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 5 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |
| 6 | She staggered down the gangway , shell-shocked , and walked home feeling as if she was floating on air but as Saturday approached the nervousness began . |
| 7 | She looked almost as if she was standing on the surface itself , although Pete knew that there were rocks and shallows and that the effect was no more than illusion . |
| 8 | Vitor seemed to have something beneath his skin which had connected with something beneath hers , and her breathing was quickening , her pulses raced , she no longer felt as if she was standing on solid ground . |
| 9 | For one thing , I thought I had cleared the nest recently , and that if she was sitting on anything at all , her clutch could not number more than two or three eggs . |
| 10 | The least I would expect would be an immediate invitation from the Prime Minister , come and see me , because if it was happening on the streets of any city in Britain and the MP stood up and said what I 've said I think he would be in Downing Street within the night . |
| 11 | Later she wondered if he was counting on her not sticking to her resolution . |
| 12 | Now it was as if he was teetering on the brink of a lidless coffin . |
| 13 | … but if he WAS concentrating on his game , it WAS N'T very hard . |
| 14 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 15 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 16 | I asked him if he was going on his boat and he said no . |
| 17 | Pearce began to move along the outside of those windows now , hand by hand on the glass , staring inside ; as if he was walking on a ledge out there , fourteen storeys high , casting wild and terror-stricken looks from side to side . |