Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [was/were] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 2 | ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’ |
| 3 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 4 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 5 | Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered . |
| 6 | But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I hear you were on the box last night , ’ said small , cheerful voices in Dyson 's ear . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 9 | Me Aunty Linda 's not working either , like she did n't need the money but I mean he was on the dole for years me Uncle Ron . |
| 10 | Confucius or Conrad or whatever you call him was on the doorstep . |
| 11 | His pace was virtually non-existent and I think he was on the end of a few ‘ Whose ate all the pies ’ songs . |
| 12 | I think it was on the jazz . |
| 13 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |