Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] 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 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 6 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 10 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 16 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |