Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] to [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 2 | but , I was listening to myself on that |
| 3 | What I was listening to myself on that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 10 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 11 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |
| 12 | Yes , that sounded plausible : he would n't take it just because it was offered to him on a plate . |
| 13 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 14 | 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 . |