Example sentences of "was [verb] on [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 2 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 3 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 4 | It is quite clear that nothing is missing from the other end of the Interludium as it was copied on to this vellum : the vellum had already been cut to its surviving top edge by the time the Interludium came to be written on to it . |
| 5 | London 's later partner in the Brompton Park nursery , Henry Wise [ q.v. ] , was another of Rose 's apprentices , whose influence on the design of formal gardens was handed on in this way to the next generation . |
| 6 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 7 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 8 | But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that . |
| 9 | that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ? |
| 10 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 11 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 12 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 13 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 14 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd known what was going on in that house right under my nose … ’ |
| 16 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 17 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 18 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 19 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 20 | He watched the girl as she moved with quiet competence about the table wondering , as always , what , if anything , was going on behind that extraordinarily wide brow , those slanted enigmatic eyes . |
| 21 | Chart 12 suggests what was going on behind these financial flows . |
| 22 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 23 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 24 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 25 | She was carrying on with some lawyer . ’ |
| 26 | It 's just conceivable that one or other of those houses was passed on to another organisation … |
| 27 | Well I think it , I think it was put on after this bit . |