Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 2 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 3 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 4 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I was to keep on with the Radio Column , some reviews , and any special features I could dream up . |
| 8 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 9 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 10 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 11 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 12 | About a dozen mental patients going through rehabilitation in Aylesbury have been working on the boat which was taken on by the Dandelion Trust . |
| 13 | When she recovered she was holding on to the edge of the table for balance . |
| 14 | And then she was holding on to the branches , feeling where the Robemaker had hacked and sawn at them , knowing she must be hurting the Larch even more , and trying to be as gentle as possible . |
| 15 | He was giving her orders : she was to hold on to the edge of the pool and breathe deeply in and out . |
| 16 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 17 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 18 | In 1935 she was sold on to the ironstone industry in the Cranford area and ended her working life at Byfield in 1963 — ironically not very far from the GCR . |
| 19 | And then a taxi stopped at her frantic signalling , and she was collapsing on to the slippery leather seat with a surge of relief that banished all other thoughts from her mind . |
| 20 | You talk about going and — all I was afraid she was going to do — she was coming on to the road so she would run into me ! |
| 21 | As the pillager passed by its glassy protuberance , she hesitated , swallowed her natural nausea and reached for it — thereby precipitating everything else she was balancing on to the tessellated tiles and into oblivion . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's more than likely I just imagined something was going on behind the scenes . |
| 23 | She saw that the man who owned it was hanging on to the side and checking it each time it swung . |
| 24 | It was holding on to the tree but I pulled it off . |
| 25 | Actually the church had no tower — it was matted on to the exterior and the interior was built in the studio . |
| 26 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 27 | ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee . |
| 28 | He was moved on to the job when we were short-handed last winter , and up-graded from labourer . ’ |
| 29 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 30 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |