Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] on the " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity .
5 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 .
6 She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus .
7 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 .
8 Of course she was drinking on the sly , her and her precious friend …
9 ‘ 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 .
10 She was featured on the back cover of the Spring edition of Assay .
11 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 .
12 When she was seated on the sofa with a glass of brandy , he spoke .
13 She was seated on the Woolpack which was tied like a saddle to her Grey Horse .
14 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 ?
15 and then she was girning on the phone because
16 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 .
17 know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Rain was sure she was listening on the other side of it .
21 ‘ I 'm assuming she was killed on the Saturday , of course , when she first went missing , as we now know .
22 They think she was killed on the night she disappeared .
23 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 .
24 She was kneeling on the floor , wiping her hands together .
25 She was kneeling on the steps next to the old iron railings that ran along the front of the terrace , her arms supporting the naked body of her little boy , and she was trembling with the effort of holding him still .
26 They smiled at each other , and Sara felt as if she was balanced on the brink of some great truth , that the world outside the window was waiting for her too , opening up , spreading out into the darkness .
27 A moment later , realising she was teetering on the brink of self-pity , she brought herself up short .
28 She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route .
29 Well she was going on the train .
30 There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came .
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