Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 2 | And when it happened , you were passing by on the bus , tuning in to their moment from another reality , like switching through channels on late-night TV . |
| 3 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 4 | I first saw him when you were sitting out on the veranda ; but I did n't pay any attention to him . |
| 5 | Oh chicken , you did n't think when you were running around on the farm that you would be lucky enough to be served to one who — May I ? |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 8 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 9 | Erm , it 's very much shorter because as we were saying earlier on the the short take off and landing capability , erm with er I 'd prefer to talk about distances perhaps in the closed session but the er the simple answer is very much . |
| 10 | Oh well , we were coming home on the bu , rest bus together . |
| 11 | We were consulting widely on the possible change to a single-tier all-purpose authority structure in Scotland . |
| 12 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 13 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 14 | They were flapping round on the |
| 15 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 16 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 17 | That 's where they were roosting overnight on the trees . |
| 18 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 21 | While they were working outside on the roof , Chola was inside sweeping down the walls and ceiling , the beams and rafters . |
| 22 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 23 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 26 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 27 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 28 | They were sitting out on the terrace on the low wall of which stood , in pairs , stone figures from classical mythology of a rather embarrassing kind . |
| 29 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 30 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |