Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I was stretched on the rack . |
| 2 | So I was left on the on the on the on the verge . |
| 3 | So everything was riding on the last day … |
| 4 | Perhaps he was working on the island again . |
| 5 | Obviously he was calculating on the basis of marginal costs of running the car , but this is what all motorists do . |
| 6 | I tried to pull the post out but I could n't , it was about six feet long and so it was dragging on the ground . |
| 7 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 8 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 9 | Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud , a noise fit to wake the dead . |
| 10 | Due to the speed of movement and poor visibility it was difficult to see exactly what was carved on the amulets it looked like worms , curling around each other . |
| 11 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 12 | Later he was employed on the Decontamination Centre at Sellafield and also the site 's Fuel Fabrication Plant . |
| 13 | When I got back to the beach ten minutes later he was sitting on the baulk . |
| 14 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
| 15 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
| 16 | Now it was sleeping on the bed . |
| 17 | Now he was teetering on the edge of the parapet . |
| 18 | Well she was going on the train . |
| 19 | Geographically it was placed on the crossroads of Europe , to the north of the Apennines , between emperor and pope , on the main roads from Milan , Verona and Padua and accessible to Ravenna and Venice , and thus linked with the Adriatic . |
| 20 | Today he was signing on the dole . |
| 21 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 22 | and then she was girning on the phone because |
| 23 | There she was lying on the floor with Bonfire of the Vanities under her head and me giving her a gentle kneading — spelt with a ‘ k ’ dear — and we were getting quite absorbed when all of a sudden the door flew open and in he came . |
| 24 | When we started well we were in trouble in York When we at then we were going on the go slow system you know , we did n't produce much slate we were on the go work to rule . |
| 25 | Still , you see if they 're coming from somewhere like Southampton or wherever they might have come , maybe they were delayed on the journey and er So we went and had our half hour lunch . |
| 26 | At least they were working on the complex that day , at least the civilian contractors had been able to bribe their private work force to cross the picket lines . |
| 27 | I can stay in there they was sitting on the bleeding ! |
| 28 | Then he was touched on the head by a rebirther and broke down into uncontrollable sobs . |
| 29 | I opened the bedroom door and there he was lying on the floor dead . |
| 30 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |