Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] on [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was still no one home so I was safe to carry on with my experiments in dressing like an adult . |
| 2 | A crab-apple tree broke his fall , and he was able to hang on to it , but his horse fell below and was killed . |
| 3 | The gardener had become a hermit because he could not abide fools ; but since the bear spoke scarcely three words in the course of the day , he was able to get on with his work without disturbance . |
| 4 | Jacqui was desperate to hang on to her theory , but she could feel it slipping away . |
| 5 | Most French people believed it was essential to hold on to their Empire in the late 1940s . |
| 6 | At this very moment it was difficult to hold on to her reservations about him ; difficult and almost impossible not to fit in and go along with his present mood and be more than happy to do so . |
| 7 | Frank was keen to carry on with his commitments in Blackpool … particularly with the Labour Party conference , he did n't want to let them down . |