Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exhibition was crowded and I felt that , really , this was for Hungarians , as though I were intruding on a private grief . |
| 2 | ‘ I was counting on a serious heart to heart with Charles 's CO . |
| 3 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 4 | ‘ Well , at least she knew I was born on a Wednesday … |
| 5 | In the afternoon , I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh , an ex-student of ours from Lancaster . |
| 6 | ‘ I was raised on a farm , ’ she said , and she took the duck from Angelica and efficiently flipped it upside down and twisted its neck . |
| 7 | I felt as though I was riding on a pink cloud with all the tension and misery flowing from me in a joyful torrent . |
| 8 | I was based on a big estate where there were extensive herds of grazing cattle . |
| 9 | Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun . |
| 10 | I was staying on a large country estate , taking part in a week 's music course . |
| 11 | I was seated on a hard sort of sofa covered with worn black velvet , and tea ( as in More Women than Men ) went ‘ through all its stages ’ . |
| 12 | Well , I was bailed on a charge of fraud but I feel they 've got something else up their sleeve . |
| 13 | One hot after noon I was cycling on a lonely road to a country house where I had two pupils when I heard a plane buzzing rather low over my head . |
| 14 | For a while I was sleeping on a floor … |
| 15 | I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy at my local cinema , The Grand , in a remote , windswept North-east village during the war years and my passion for Snow White , Grumpy , Happy and Mickey has not dimmed with the passage of time . |
| 16 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 17 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 18 | I was put on a slab and all my clothes cut off me . |
| 19 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 20 | I was arrested on a Wednesday and kept overnight at the police station and questioned . |
| 21 | One afternoon after tennis I was sitting on a drawing-room sofa at Bemersyde when Dawyck 's dog , a long black cocker spaniel called Wasp , came and nuzzled up against me in the most friendly manner . |
| 22 | As a 13-year-old child , I was sitting on a train when a middle-aged man came over and started talking . |
| 23 | And I used this line but it did n't sound so effective because I was sitting on a bicycle . |
| 24 | I was sitting on a chair near the door , and I could just hear Greta Ross 's voice speaking on the phone . |
| 25 | On another occasion I was sitting on a bank with my feet on the headland , and Walter was coming along with his horses . |
| 26 | I was sitting on a seat in the park , enjoying the sunshine , when suddenly I felt deathly sick . |
| 27 | I was sitting on a timebomb . |
| 28 | Some years ago I was travelling on a train from Liverpool to Southport . |
| 29 | ‘ I was going on a bit . ’ |
| 30 | Earlier I had felt as if I was being torn in two , but now the decision was made , I was floating on a warm tide of physical ease , as if I had just given birth . |