Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were to insist on veal goulash , for example , all would be lost . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Watched by landlord of the Holts Brewery Inn , Tony Stanton , she was joined on her visit by other representatives from Czechoslavkia and councillors and officials from Sandwell Borough Council . |
| 13 | She was built on the Selina model , with several dirty-minded enlargements , the emphasis all on protuberance , convexity . |
| 14 | She was remanded on bail at Swindon Magistrates charged with obtaining money by deception . |
| 15 | Membership of the Institute requires appropriate practical experience as well as the written exam , so it was a double success story that she was accepted on both counts . |
| 16 | She was functioning on instinct alone . |
| 17 | Besides , Simon 's door was the one she was counting on : she did n't need any other escape route . |
| 18 | She knew what to expect from the cykeman , but she was counting on his not knowing what to expect from her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She was acting on the advice of her therapist in speaking thus . |
| 21 | He was sending her to face a hostile male and when everything was clearly laid down she was to spy on him — a thing she had refused so loudly . |
| 22 | She was indicted on Nov. 21 and on Dec. 6 pleaded not guilty in a Baltimore federal court to charges that she had embezzled $5,600,000 in funds from the HUD and that she had made false statements to the government . |
| 23 | She was determined on it . |
| 24 | She was determined on that . |
| 25 | She was acquitted on 17 counts of murder but admitted manslaughter during the trial which dramatically collapsed when the INLA bomb gang threw in the towel and changed their pleas . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was picking on me . |
| 28 | She was had on a full stomach . |
| 29 | I knew that she was operating on a matter of some principle , something basic and territorial , something she had been taught , perhaps . |
| 30 | It was only a few steps , but now she was leaning on his arm for steadiness rather than support . |