Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 3 | The laughter had subsided , the ladies were folding the coat and dress and were about to lay it on a tissue-papered bed in a cardboard box , when Agnes said , ‘ What size shoes does she take ? |
| 4 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 5 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 6 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |