Example sentences of "was [verb] on [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was it , because Edith was going on another holiday and she was er , she wanted someone to go and visit er Lilly , and I said well I 'll go . |
| 2 | In 1746 he was appointed to a post in the Office of Works , as clerk of the works at Hampton Court , presumably through the influence of Burlington ; and his subsequent career was based on that institution and the patronage of one leading public figure , Thomas Pelham-Holles , first Duke of Newcastle [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | got talking about Sun readers , there was this girl and she , she was stood on this podium and she , she 's talking to The Express and The Guardian and going like that and their taking photographs of her and then you sort of pan round , the camera pans round and you 've got The Star and the Sun going like that fucking its really funny , The Sun and The Star in it |
| 4 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 5 | Although he seemed to be oblivious of what had happened , because he was concentrating on some letter or other , Eliot looked up resignedly and with a smile of one all too accustomed to the lack of business acumen in other people ; but I could see that he was also relieved to find me not too cast down . |
| 6 | The Stage was published on that day and they would sit at tables in threes and fours sharing a single cup of coffee Everyone was generous about sharing job information and they had the bonus of the Tiller name behind them . |
| 7 | Standidge was knighted on this occasion and was five times warden of Hull Trinity House ( 1777 , 1782 , 1788 , 1795 , and 1800 ) . |