Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 2 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |
| 3 | Well , they were perching on the erm chimneys of that one and then they 've been coming they 're gon na be swooping round up not actually low but above it , about fly to the bathroom then spread up , turning a circle , coming down and going past my window and land |
| 4 | They were gathering on the Strip , in the coffee houses like the Unicorn , Mac 's , Luan 's and the Renaissance . |
| 5 | They were calling on the Government to replace millions of pounds , plundered by Maxwell from pension funds . |
| 6 | ‘ It got to the point where they were jumping on the bonnet and it would have been a matter of time before they ran over my roof . ’ |
| 7 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 8 | I found it odd that they were building on the most exposed and inconvenient site on the hill , though the view was no doubt prodigious . |
| 9 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 10 | When the birds were not foraging with greenfinches , chaffinches and robins on the fragments beneath the bags , they were feeding on the nuts in the bag like other tits do , and this is seldom seen . |
| 11 | He 'd noticed this when they were trespassing on the embankment one day , playing Robin Hood and his Merrie Men . |
| 12 | It was well I did n't see much sense in that either but er I mean if they were eating on the j er eating on the job did n't give you a break at all . |
| 13 | He did not say whether they had been involved in any of the English advice or whether they were advising on the valuations as going concerns as bus stations or advising on the development values . |
| 14 | It were a month after they first started playing with the machine that someone hears one of the tunes they were singing on the wireless set . ’ |
| 15 | They all said they were waiting on the bank . |
| 16 | They er they , they said they were waiting on the bank to confirm the money . |
| 17 | Er they were banking on the fact that there 'd be problems for other countries because of , you know , public perception etcetera , you know the French had decided almost all of them decided they 'd have a nuclear programme anyway so , so , so they were er o okay . |
| 18 | They were being kept nine to a cell in the jail.At first they were sleeping on the concrete floor , now they 're on wooden slats . |
| 19 | You may recall that in 1976 a Church of Scotland minister , defending his action in shooting two of Gavin Maxwell 's adopted otter cubs as they were playing on the shore , argued that ‘ the Lord gave man control over the beasts of the field ’ . |
| 20 | I think they were playing on the , the sheet I 'd sent back does n't say that we had n't had any official conformations , still did n't , although we had , had it on the telephone we had n't had anything written . |
| 21 | They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room . |
| 22 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 23 | They were standing on the lower section , with a fire door leading onto a split-level landing . |
| 24 | They were standing on the lower landing watching . |
| 25 | They were standing on the waste ground behind the car park which Hoomey had crossed on his way to Bean 's . |
| 26 | They were standing on the jetty with a score of chattering women , waiting for the launch that would take them to the depot ship Omega . |
| 27 | They were standing on the lawn in front of the lovely red-brick house with its weathered old red tiles and its tall chimneys , and Miss Honey still had the pair of garden clippers in one hand . |
| 28 | They were standing on the front steps of Crystal Springs House . |
| 29 | They were standing on the paved area behind the house : all the windows were dark , the garden chairs and the round table abandoned and vulnerable . |
| 30 | They were standing on the side of the road , with the forest behind them and the Robemaker 's Workshops directly ahead . |