The project missed its deadline, and on top of that the client requested several major changes at the last minute.

She always puts on her yellow raincoat when it starts to drizzle.

She was putting on her raincoat when the phone rang.

When one is down on one's luck, finding affordable housing becomes much harder.

It's important to keep one's hair on during negotiations, even when tensions rise.

From the sidelines I will on the young runner, my breath barely audible as she approached the finish line.

Those early on choices had a bigger impact than later adjustments.

She recognized the problem early on and scheduled a meeting to address it.

After the neighborhood had experienced a series of break-ins, she stayed on the alert every night.

Rather than abandon the project, she kept falling back on familiar routines to maintain her progress.