Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 2 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 3 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 4 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 5 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 6 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 7 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 8 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 9 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 10 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 11 | I was put out , but not drastically put out . |
| 12 | ‘ I was put out , ’ confessed Rose , sinking back into her seat . |
| 13 | After the normal speculation that surrounds these events I was put out of my misery as she weighed in at 32lb 4oz — to say I was ecstatic would have been an understatement . |
| 14 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 15 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 16 | When I was a first year I was put in as ballboy and I did n't know the rules . |
| 17 | I was put down at Whitcross , a crossroads on the moor , after travelling for two days in the coach . |
| 18 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 19 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 20 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |
| 21 | I did stop smoking for three months and then with everyone else around us , I mean I was putting on weight and then I went back to smoking . |
| 22 | It 's funny , I did n't appreciate the fact that I was putting on weight . |
| 23 | That evening , when I was putting up my tent and preparing my meal , Mick was singing and seemed exceptionally cheerful . |
| 24 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 25 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |
| 26 | Erm so I c I could n't buy any of what you were telling me and it 's all like a , it was all a smokescreen I was putting up , the accountant , basically I , I was not erm buying anything er and the compressed funding was just blowing my mind because I could n't understa er it was basically giving me an easy option to say I do n't need to do anything cos I can compress my funding at forty five wo n't I , when my business has taken off . |
| 27 | As I was putting down my swab , it went again , straightaway . |
| 28 | I would have said while I was putting out my washing cos I did it last night on purpose for the gas man coming in . |
| 29 | Despite the happenings of the 400 years which have passed since the last of these buildings were being constructed , the quantity which exists in all European countries is testimony to the ability of the builders and the truly vast numbers of structures which were put up between 1150 and 1550 . |
| 30 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |