Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 3 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 4 | I was just congratulating myself on negotiating the first and second holes fairly well when disaster struck at the 142-yard par-three third . |
| 5 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 6 | Months later he was to admit : ‘ Do n't you realize , Jim , I was just egging you on all the time ? |
| 7 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 8 | Mm that 's why I thought you was n't doing anything on that day , |
| 9 | The solid ground rocked and heaved beneath us , but we were soon gorging ourselves on rich noodles and spicy chilled crabs and lobster — forbidden fruit while amongst our Islamic Bugis . |
| 10 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 11 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 12 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 13 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 14 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 15 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 17 | He was n't doing anything on it . |
| 18 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |