Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on fire " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timbers of the Widdershin Gate were already on fire when Rincewind , his face blistered and reddened from the flames , reached them . |
| 2 | A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months . |
| 3 | Besides , her arms were still on fire from where he had lifted her and her nipples still burned from that brief contact with his chest . |
| 4 | well it were n't on fire |
| 5 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 6 | Anyone outside looking up would think the room was all on fire . |
| 7 | In spite of the fact that one brave Hurricane came to the rescue ( Jessop ) , the Maryland was soon on fire in one engine , and the rear gunner ( Sgt. J. Levy ) killed by a cannon shell in the chest . |
| 8 | Lambert heard something crack and thrash itself in the slipstream , but the plane still flew and although there was stink coming from the engine it was not on fire . |
| 9 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |
| 10 | Every day before and after school he faithfully practised reading and writing and occasionally when Emilia Thorne returned from the library she would pop round , when Tom was out on Fire Duty , and sit with him . |