Example sentences of "i was [v-ing] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , I was prattling on to your dad , saying when we claimed it back when we claimed it back we 'll bring it early but |
| 2 | In writing the book I was jumping on to something of a bandwagon . |
| 3 | I associated the whole family thing with being older and I was holding on to my youth . |
| 4 | I was so cold today , yeah , I got a , I filled up that kettle and I boiled it and I got , I was holding on to it and I fell backwards on to my bed and I burnt myself |
| 5 | We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning . |
| 6 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 7 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The man had died and I was getting on with my life . ’ |
| 9 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 10 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 11 | Shifty-Eyes could n't do much about it as I was hanging on to his foot . |
| 12 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 13 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 14 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 15 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 16 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 17 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |