Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 2 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 3 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 4 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 5 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 6 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 7 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 8 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 9 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 10 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 11 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 12 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 13 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 14 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 15 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 16 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 17 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 18 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 19 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 20 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 21 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 22 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |