Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce and Duvall were blurred figures beside the wreck , distinguishable only in that Duvall was carrying the paraffin containers , which he was setting down on the pavement . |
| 2 | He was summoned down on the Saturday evening and his presence at least had the effect of giving its a vignette of Baldwin 's behaviour on the eve of what was likely to be the most testing week of his premiership . |
| 3 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 4 | 2 weeks after he was allowed back on the streets , Andrew Hagans murdered Anna McGurk . |
| 5 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 6 | Twenty four hours later he was sitting out on the Corso . |
| 7 | Then he was hauling back on the control column and edging in on Woolley as the flight hurtled up in a long recovery from its dive . |
| 8 | If Darwin showed biologically that evolution was nature 's way of natural selection and continual improvement , he was backed up on the social level by all the great social theorists who taught one version or another of perpetual progress . |
| 9 | Quite apart from the blunder there was one moment near the end of the game when he was walking around on the stage of Sadler 's Wells , unaware for a few minutes that it was his move . |
| 10 | He 's obviously been in the river , so it does n't look as if he was knocked out on the beach . |
| 11 | He was hauled back on the edge of the area by O'Leary , a ‘ professional ’ foul for which the Arsenal central defender was booked . |
| 12 | He was peering in on the proceedings from the kitchen , while his best friend , Mafouz , had retreated to the stairs and was looking down , intently , on Mr Malik 's elegantly coiffeured hair . |
| 13 | Too young to be hired as a full-blown CI , he was signed up on the spot as a ‘ subsource ’ , a convenient arrangement whereby he was paid by a DEA CI , rather than by the agency itself , so that , in the interests of ‘ deniability ’ , his name did not have to appear on any official payroll records . |
| 14 | He 's alright , he was rolling over on the floor yesterday with me was n't he ? |
| 15 | ‘ Well , ’ the boy said , ‘ he was working up on the roof , so I could n't give it to him . |