Example sentences of "she [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had she been doing on her own up there by the long barrow ? |
| 2 | The first time out she had seen nothing but a sea of faces , so hard had she been concentrating on what she was doing . |
| 3 | She felt as if she were operating on auto-pilot . |
| 4 | She felt as though she were treading on thin ice and any false move might plunge her once more into the dark depths of despair . |
| 5 | An hour later Sophie left the pet shop feeling as though she were walking on air . |
| 6 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 7 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 8 | She felt as if she were floating on air . |
| 9 | She felt as if she were floating on a soft , fleecy cloud , and quite sure that she never wanted to return to earth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ She 's getting on a bit for a first baby , is n't she ? ’ she demanded . |
| 13 | And of course she 's getting on a bit herself now . |
| 14 | She 's getting on my nerves . |
| 15 | She 's getting on a bit now ! |
| 16 | She 's financing on cars |
| 17 | she 's laying on the bottom going , but I did n't move her cos it |
| 18 | ‘ You 're doing it for the child she 's foisting on you . |
| 19 | Anyhow , she 's living on her own in London , she 's not married , so my husband said , oh ask her over , perhaps she 'd like to come for Christmas . |
| 20 | They 've told her she 's had three years more than what she should of had , she 's living on borrowed time , but , erm , she said the ho er |
| 21 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 22 | She 's very much aware of what is going on around her , even though she 's working on her latest project . |
| 23 | And er she 's working on that . |
| 24 | She she 's working on some poxy thing ! |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps she is , but she 's trading on it . |
| 26 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's concentrating on their body forms , feeling them with her senses … ’ |
| 28 | But she might be going with a friend , and I think she 's planning on meeting up with Aunty Edna . |
| 29 | She 's travelling on the same train as you , but do n't fall in love with her . ’ |
| 30 | she 's going on holiday in January |