Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 3 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 4 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 15 | Mrs yeah I was laughing , she was rolling around on the floor laughing , yes I said oh it 's |
| 16 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 19 | She put the tray she was carrying down on the wrought iron table . |
| 20 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 21 | She was sitting down on the couch with Newman beside her . |
| 22 | We just got here , and there you was stretched out on the floor . |
| 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 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 25 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 26 | It was carried back on the blowing sand , but it moved unhurriedly forward . |
| 27 | It was carried out on the orders of Salim Al-Makesh to give himself time to flee the terrorist base before Delta destroyed it . ’ |
| 28 | It was picked up on the fourth ring by an answerphone . |
| 29 | It is worth lingering over Churchill 's ‘ overlord ’ experiment , as it was put back on the agenda of reform by Sir Douglas Wass , former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , in his 1983 Reith Lectures . |
| 30 | It was burned down on the second anniversary of the Falklands War . |