Example sentences of "were [v-ing] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had climbed hard all afternoon , and shortly before seven o'clock , with the sky softening towards apricot , were resting on a rocky outcrop . |
| 2 | Her feet were resting on a small , aluminium step-ladder . |
| 3 | ‘ We were driving on the main road out of Fernley , I think … ’ |
| 4 | There were reports that 1,000 people a day were dying on the Iranian border alone . |
| 5 | Two minutes later , on the concrete of a Royal Air Force aerodrome , the engines of the German bomber were dying on the light west wind . |
| 6 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 7 | Although we were walking on a sunny , but chilly Saturday in early June , the ridge was completely deserted , a great bonus considering the weekend traffic on most Munros . |
| 8 | As usual , they were nesting on a precipitous — though in this case well-vegetated — cliff-face . |
| 9 | Perhaps this flock were nesting on the grassy top of Hoo Stack , who knows ? |
| 10 | Which artistes were appearing on a certain date , that sort of thing . |
| 11 | Puddles were forming on the parched earth . |
| 12 | The Maidens were living on a fifty-eight foot boat with twelve people aboard , wherever they moved there was somebody else . |
| 13 | There were no prizes for guessing , after tonight , that the Desmond Seymour-Stracheys were living on a financial knife-edge , and would be interested in any sudden accession of wealth , by any means , from any source . |
| 14 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 15 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 16 | The petty officers said men of 72 nationalities were serving on the Red Crimea as ‘ one big happy family ’ and they did not want to be split up . |
| 17 | Morgan v. Russell & sons ( 1909 D.C. ) concerned the sale of some slag and cinders which were lying on a particular piece of ground . |
| 18 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 19 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 20 | Liessa and the Loremaster were waiting on a raised dais at one end of the meadow . |
| 21 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 22 | She and Hamdi El-Menshawy , who recently set up home together , were going on a trekking holiday in Nepal . |
| 23 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 24 | Military vehicles were no rarity in the streets , while press and television maintained a steady flow of information on how things were going on the different fronts . |
| 25 | The family were going on an early morning shopping trip to buy a surprise for their father Dennis 's 54th birthday . |
| 26 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 27 | That 's a thing I find that we 're losing very much is all these exclamations and of course a lot of exclamations were calling on a divine hand of God to look after you . |
| 28 | In a separate appeal issued on the same day to the Lithuanian people Gorbachev said that developments in their republic were causing " extreme concern and bewilderment " throughout the Soviet Union , and that people were calling on the Soviet government to use " economic , political and administrative measures " to defend the USSR Constitution and the country 's integrity . |
| 29 | The old tollhouse further upstream by the site of the totally removed old bridge is a very desirable residence with ubiquitous modern coachlamps at the door and surrounded by bungalows built ‘ where groups of fine cattle were grazing on the rich grass ’ , that made JTR ‘ covet the power of the animal painter . ’ |
| 30 | A few reindeer were grazing on the sparse tundra . |