Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How difficult it was to try to keep her feet on the ground , when inside she felt as if she were poised on the brink of a wild and wonderful adventure . |
| 2 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 3 | She felt as if she were floating on a soft , fleecy cloud , and quite sure that she never wanted to return to earth . |
| 4 | And then the silence of the hillside was rent by a further sound , a high buzzing at first like a gigantic and enraged wasp , and then a roar and a rending of the air , so that Molly felt as though she were standing on the bridge of a warship and some huge Exocet missile was being hurled in her direction . |
| 5 | She felt as though she were standing on the edge of a great chasm , with him on the other side urging her to jump across to him . |
| 6 | She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity . |
| 7 | While in Athens she had got her hall-porter to place a successful bet for her on a horse called Beethoven , and I am sure she was acting on the best information that was to be had . |
| 8 | She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus . |
| 9 | Embarrassed both by her comments and by the expression on her face , Seb squeezed the hand she was resting on the cart in front of her . |
| 10 | She was had on a full stomach . |
| 11 | I knew that she was operating on a matter of some principle , something basic and territorial , something she had been taught , perhaps . |
| 12 | Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend … |
| 13 | ‘ Fred ’ as she was called on the circuit , played no less than 26 Federation and Wightman Cup rubbers for Britain , before directing her sporting talents , in a competitive sense , increasingly towards golf to which she had been introduced by her devoted husband Keith , himself a former leading British tennis junior . |
| 14 | She was featured on the back cover of the Spring edition of Assay . |
| 15 | ‘ You did and so did I. ’ He looked up at her when she was seated on a calm grey horse . |
| 16 | Mother took books and crayons and accompanied Susan while she was seated on the lavatory , encouraging and talking to her about doing her ‘ poo ’ in it . |
| 17 | When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke . |
| 18 | She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse . |
| 19 | So er , she phoned the corporation and she asked the man , to , to say she was leaving on the Saturday morning and were they , were they gon na come and er ba er what wi , er , bar up the windows ? |
| 20 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
| 21 | She was building on a genuine ritual of immemorial antiquity , that of Beating the Bounds . |
| 22 | Do you wan na hear erm do you wan na hear Fiona singing ? she was singing on the mike , she was singing yeah really singing you know . |
| 23 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |
| 24 | She was slipping on a surface as smooth as glass , and cries were resounding in her ears — her own cries , she thought confusedly , or Adam 's ; then she fell , and the glassy surface struck like a blow . |
| 25 | When I did the first two talks , Dawn was n't trained enough to fly , though on the second she did manage a short hop , but by the time this big lecture came along she was flying on the creance . |
| 26 | She flicked a look at Travis as , without so much as asking her to hold on , Mr Green went away to tell Rosemary that she was wanted on the phone . |
| 27 | Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm assuming she was killed on the Saturday , of course , when she first went missing , as we now know . |
| 29 | They think she was killed on the night she disappeared . |
| 30 | He descended the stairs two at a time , and before she 'd managed to catch her breath she was deposited on the settee in the living-room and Michele was sitting beside her . |