Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 2 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 4 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 6 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 7 | All wobble and tremor , the Quake just was n't making it on the Richter Scale . |
| 8 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 9 | Mr Wheelhouse , of Roseberry Crescent , Norton , Stockton , asked him where his money was then hit him on the head with the hammer , knocking him unconscious . |