Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) . |
| 2 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 3 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 4 | They marched down the road , stopping outside every public house — where they were handed drinks by the landlord — and outside cottages whose inhabitants were awaiting them on their doorsteps . |
| 5 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 6 | This can happen if , for example , the sub-purchaser bought the goods from someone who was hiring them on hire purchase terms . |
| 7 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 8 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 9 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 10 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 11 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 12 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 13 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 14 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 15 | Being English , she thought that a sure way of bestowing pleasure on strangers was to compliment them on their dogs . |