Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 2 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 3 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 4 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 5 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 6 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 7 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 8 | Oh they 've it off the Sunday because it was competing with something on the Sunday , what 's the other side Sunday ? |
| 9 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 10 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 11 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 12 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 13 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 14 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |
| 15 | So the next morning she went to Rouen station , and when her son , still wearing a fresh crust of pride and sex , got off the train , she was waiting for him on the platform . |
| 16 | Beryl Garland was waiting for him on the landing , a lean , bony woman with uncared-for greying hair , a pallid complexion blotched with an unnatural pink , and restless suspicious eyes . |
| 17 | The Prince was waiting for him on the terrace of the Hotel Continental , sitting by himself and looking bored . |
| 18 | From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI . |
| 19 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 20 | So here she was sitting beside me on the window-seat , shut in between a heavy curtain and a window . |
| 21 | After The Tyger 's Whelp put in at the harbour at Liamuiga , also known as Everhope , the winter after the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , the letter from the King in England to Kit was delivered to him on the verandah of the Great House at Belmont , by the captain , one Rowland Grasscocke , who was plying a regular trade between England , the West Coast of Africa and the Hesperidean chain . |
| 22 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 23 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 24 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 25 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 26 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 27 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 28 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |
| 29 | She was talking about you on the phone recently . |
| 30 | That view was expressed by everyone on the Opposition Benches and a few Conservative Members , but was ignored as the Government arrogantly used the power of an artificial majority to force the poll tax through . |