Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [pron] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 11 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 12 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 13 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |