Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Boro played Peterborough United in the Rumbelows League Cup I was cheering on the lads . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was hit on the leg and the wrist and knocked to the floor . |
| 4 | I was hit on the right leg and nearly fell . |
| 5 | If you were n't have said ooh I was listening on the phones and just a leave it on , you know the phones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was born on the English side , but prefer to be Scottish . |
| 8 | I was born on the twenty eighth of December nineteen ten . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This was also the first of many operations at Poole in which I was involved on the cutters . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was kept on the rails . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | I was reading on the bed . |
| 17 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Mr Leonard , who lives in central Darlington , said : ‘ I was cut on the head and pushed to the floor several times . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On 8 May , about 8 o'clock in the morning , I was seated on the doorstep of my house . |
| 22 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 23 | I was sat on the couch and when I woke up , ten to three . |
| 24 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | Everyone else had gone and I was practising on the putting green . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | It transpired the reason why I was put on the works was because there was another woman on the works with the same surname who 'd gone to Holloway for her appeal and they thought she 'd come back and had got us mixed up . |
| 29 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 30 | The idea of the vats of the mind reminds me of an occasion when I was walking on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania with some friends , who showed me an oak gall . |