Example sentences of "that were [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , but he was here the other Sunday and he , he , they were , he , he was reading my paper and he come back and he the following Sunday he said you have n't got last Sunday 's paper mum , I said I do n't know I might , oh I think I threw it out , anyway just happened to find it , it was something he read of some woman that were meddling on the pools and the , the , what she 'd used , you know and the |
| 2 | However , when Mary stood up and took hold of the reins that were trailing on the ground , she thrashed the horse with her cane . |
| 3 | Fact recognition method it 's a piece of hardware and one of the things that 's clear actually is that er the Alexander worlds and all sorts of other people that were working on this do n't look at them in this way and they look at these as I say ram blocks . |
| 4 | And May leant forward from her chair and stroked the cat and its kitten that were lying on the rug before the blazing coal fire . |
| 5 | Taff was standing by the gun swatting the mosquitoes that were landing on his face . |