Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] 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 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 4 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 5 | I was stationed right on the Pilgrims Way |
| 6 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 7 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 8 | I was left outside on the grass verge while my mother went to the bedside . |
| 9 | He ran , and I was left there on the step with this huge bunch of flowers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 12 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 13 | She saw the shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye and she was still reaching for her Beretta when she was struck heavily on the shoulder , knocking the Geiger-Muller counter from her hand . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 16 | She was stationed now on the male floor and visited him frequently — sometimes in the line of duty , sometimes for a few minutes when her work was finished , often — as now , when she should have been elsewhere — for an illicit cigarette . |
| 17 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 18 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 19 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 20 | We just got here , and there you was stretched out on the floor . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 23 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 24 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 25 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 26 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 27 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 28 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 29 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 30 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |