Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 2 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 3 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 4 | Today ranked number eight , he was taking on the best of British , Jeremy Bates . |
| 5 | It looked as if he was taking on the whole KGB . |
| 6 | Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market . |
| 7 | He was put on the waiting list for insertion of grommets . |
| 8 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |
| 9 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |