Example sentences of "were [adv] [v-ing] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I really believe they have not had any capital for twenty years , but were entirely trading on credit . ’ |
| 2 | and these people were not depending on agriculture alone . |
| 3 | In the Operations Room , some of the female part-time watchkeepers were just coming on duty and were being briefed on the operations that were planned for the day and those that were already taking place . |
| 4 | By the third week around 17 per cent thought Labour and the Alliance were also concentrating on defence . |
| 5 | They certainly were n't speaking on behalf of the company and appear to be , frankly , incomprehensible ramblings . |
| 6 | Surfers despised bodyboarders for not standing up on their boards : they were n't walking on water , they were wallowing in it . |
| 7 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 8 | Hamilton and I did dummies of what an alternative paper might look like — we were then working on Student , and had access to design material . |
| 9 | The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail . |
| 10 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |