Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Charlie Bubbles character , which Finney played , his marriage had broken up and he was n't getting on with his kids . |
| 2 | Simon was drinking like a fish ; he was n't getting on with Mary at all ; he was working too much , and they said he was worried as he was about to switch Parties . |
| 3 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 4 | He was always going on about how undignified and painful the examinations were . |
| 5 | He was always going on about " Her Indoors " and none ever saw her . |
| 6 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 7 | What's-His-Name , English lecturer , second year , that course on the Nineteenth Century Novel … remember how he was always wittering on about Incest in Wuthering Heights ? ’ |
| 8 | Schellenberg , who felt that he was only hanging on to his sanity by his fingernails , said , ‘ But , Reichsführer , what if Devlin does n't wish to be persuaded ? ’ |
| 9 | Having sired one litter in the UK , he was then sent on to Norway . |
| 10 | After a year of this , he was then taken on by an Exeter dentist , a Mr. Groves , as a dental technician . |