Example sentences of "[adv] he was [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how he got in the house but suddenly he was knocking on your door . |
| 2 | Apparently he was fidgeting on parade and the Sergeant Major screamed at him , ‘ Stand still , you idle little monarch ! ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps he was calling on his sexton , Albert Piggott , or on Harold Shoosmith nearby . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 5 | Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car , but this is what all motorists do . |
| 6 | Buster somehow or other was found to have one of the instruments , and so he was put on a charge and ultimately he was sentenced to be flogged as this was still the practice in the Services . |
| 7 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 8 | Half an hour later he was seated on her couch reading a financial magazine she subscribed to while in the kitchen a cheesecake was defrosting in the microwave , and a home-made lasagne warming up in the oven . |
| 9 | Four and a half months later he was freed on parole , the only member of Charlie Company to have been convicted . |
| 10 | Later he was employed on the Decontamination Centre at Sellafield and also the site 's Fuel Fabrication Plant . |
| 11 | Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath . |
| 12 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 13 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 14 | Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet . |
| 15 | He had moved , rolled away from her , and now he was pulling on his clothes , his actions feverish , his hands shaking slightly . |
| 16 | Today he was placed on probation for two years . |
| 17 | Today he was signing on the dole . |
| 18 | Luckily he was engaged on operational matters when his ‘ guest ’ arrived , and turned him over temporarily to his intelligence officer , a flight lieutenant called Benson , who recognized the symptoms instantly and prescribed a double whisky . |
| 19 | Although he was only eighteen months older than Carrie he was in the top class and sometimes he was taught on his own by Mr Morgan , the Minister , because he was cleverer than even the most senior boys . |
| 20 | Then he was touched on the head by a rebirther and broke down into uncontrollable sobs . |
| 21 | Then he was turning on his heel . |
| 22 | I mean was there any difficulty learning lines , was there any difficulty walking on stage , acting the part , being an actor , because Adam Faith the pop singer may have brought them in but then he was forgotten on stage was n't he ? |
| 23 | I opened the bedroom door and there he was lying on the floor dead . |
| 24 | But instead he was sent on this unique course . |
| 25 | Yet he was insisting on going to a whelping case . |
| 26 | From 1803 onwards he was employed on estate surveys in various parts of Scotland . |
| 27 | Taking it seriously he was accepted on a degree course in Photography at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive . |