Example sentences of "was [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 2 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 3 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 4 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 5 | There was a storm as we passed the southern tip of Cuba , and the ship I was on was smashed on to offshore rocks by the weather . |
| 6 | Meanwhile my cotton body was wound on to great bolts , each one five metres long . |
| 7 | It was turned on by remote control . |
| 8 | The business of importing dramatic madness to Broadmoor was embarked on with enormous misgivings . |
| 9 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 10 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 11 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 12 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 13 | The interest shown by so many ninth-century chroniclers , wherever they were based , in what was going on in other parts of that world , and specifically , in what kings did , reflects a persisting reality . |
| 14 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 15 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 16 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 17 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |
| 18 | Peter Graham Scott , who made some episodes of Danger Man and the TV play The Quare Fellow , was working on the legendary series The Troubleshooters when he was called on to direct several episodes of Sir Francis Drake , including the opening one . |
| 19 | Of course , those who squeezed him out were at pains to say Young was staying on as Young Group chief executive . |
| 20 | She was holding on for dear life , leaning into him , lifting on tiptoe so that he could gather her close , hold her tightly in his arms , while his tongue slipped into her mouth , while his hand swept up her ribs and lightly cupped her breast … |
| 21 | The government was plunging on into uncharted waters without a pilot or perhaps a map . |
| 22 | The term ‘ Majorism ’ , briefly promoted by the Prime Minister 's Office , was frowned on by Tory Central Office . |
| 23 | When Hughes , who had been cheered every time he warmed up , was brought on with United 2-1 down , Ferguson again incurred the crowd 's wrath by bringing off Sharpe , who like all United 's young players is popular with the supporters . |
| 24 | ( Presumably his fatal illness was brought on by severe shock . ) |
| 25 | What seems to have happened is that the distinction , drawn perhaps from one of the few classical instances ( of Ulpian or Papinian ) , was seized on by epi-classical law and later adopted as a post-classical touchstone . |
| 26 | The case was passed on to German Self Aid , who Rave £50 . |
| 27 | For all these reasons , the unexpected visit of the clergyman was passed on with ponderous confidentiality . |
| 28 | During 1976 the Firefly 's Rolls-Royce Griffon XII was worked on by local aircraft engineers and they managed to get it running again . |
| 29 | He stood up on his chair all the way through lunch , with the gravy running down his great red face on to his bib and flying off the spoon he was waving on to other people 's clothes ; and in his loud , pharyngitic voice he kept up a perpetual background noise of questions and comments . |
| 30 | The material was poured on to hemispherical centering in which the coffered panels had been inserted . |