Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , while he and I were walking on the moors , he announced , ‘ Jane , I 'll be leaving in six weeks . ’ |
| 2 | Early fog had cleared and the airport manager and I were standing on the tarmac lining up the motorcade when my car phone rang . |
| 3 | One Sunday afternoon , when Dana and I were sitting on the edge of the bed working over versions of various poems , the door , which we always left unlocked , suddenly burst open and a group of surly-looking students entered , led by a big bully who was not Spanish but Venezuelan . |
| 4 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 5 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 6 | I was hit on the leg and the wrist and knocked to the floor . |
| 7 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
| 8 | If you were n't have said ooh I was listening on the phones and just a leave it on , you know the phones . |
| 9 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 10 | I was born on the English side , but prefer to be Scottish . |
| 11 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 12 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 13 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 14 | I was followed on the platform by a self-confessed cynic who poked clever fun at my talk and finished by saying ‘ … and anyway , Bob Geldof is naff ’ , as if the only relevant criterion for judging his contribution was one of personal taste and style . |
| 15 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 16 | She said and Bobby says she do n't he said I was laying on the floor the other night and she came down beside with me and put her arm round me as we were laying there he said I 'll never do anything he said cos if you started playing about with her she 'll , you know childlike and and he said she would n't erm show her affection any more . |
| 17 | I was kept on the rails . |
| 18 | I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with ! |
| 19 | I was reading on the bed . |
| 20 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 21 | I was paralysed on the canalside , mid pen stroke , sketching the boat for the skipper , then running towards the stern where the young man was swimming for his life out of the narrowing gap . |
| 22 | Mr Leonard , who lives in central Darlington , said : ‘ I was cut on the head and pushed to the floor several times . |
| 23 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 24 | On 8 May , about 8 o'clock in the morning , I was seated on the doorstep of my house . |
| 25 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 26 | I was sat on the couch and when I woke up , ten to three . |
| 27 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 28 | ‘ That was the same night I was crouched on the pool table getting all the fellas to aim their shots between my legs , ’ she laughs . |
| 29 | Everyone else had gone and I was practising on the putting green . |
| 30 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |