Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 3 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 4 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 5 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 6 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 7 | Well , it 's , it 's simple that if I got up at half past six , and took him up a cup of tea at quarter too seven , and when he was around at seven o'clock , I was grilling bacon and I was frying eggs , and I hope , I do n't know whether perhaps it 's my cold , but , I , I just used to feel terribly unwell after he 'd gone , for about two hours and my legs were so wobbly , I was sitting down on the sofa , I may go back yet to cooking him breakfast if I feel like it , but , the , I mean if I can say to these chaps that , there are times when I do n't feel like doing things , well , I reckon Dave that they are so glad to be in that house with the central heating , with the twenty four hour er , er a day water , and the comfort , there not going to argue . |
| 8 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 9 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 10 | It really is I mean I I still feel guilty and it might sound daft to you , but I still feel guilty and what would my have done about I was down in London a few weeks ago for a meeting and I was coming back on the sleeper and I got the train to Euston and erm I came out at the wrong spot , so I had to walk out of Euston Underground and then round to go to Euston Station rather than going through |
| 11 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 12 | I knew that during those brief immortal moments when I was standing up on the board , walking on water , I too felt like a supreme being , until the ocean cast me down again and turned me once more into a creeping thing that creepeth upon the face of the earth . |
| 13 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 14 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 15 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 16 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 17 | Oh chicken , you did n't think when you were running around on the farm that you would be lucky enough to be served to one who — May I ? |
| 18 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 19 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 20 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 21 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 22 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 23 | That had been their agreement , and , if she was walking out on the deal earlier than expected , it was as much his fault as hers . |
| 24 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 25 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 26 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 27 | She was sitting down on the couch with Newman beside her . |
| 28 | We just got here , and there you was stretched out on the floor . |
| 29 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 30 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |