Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 2 | That is ‘ No comment ’ , but it 's ‘ No comment ’ done in such a way that it is implying intelligence on the part of the audience , saying , ‘ Well , you realize , of course , that if I were to comment on this , you know , it would prejudice either the chances of the prisoner if we catch him or , you know , any possible clues and so on . ’ |
| 3 | Holmes and I were sitting on either side of a bright fire in our sitting room in Baker Street . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 5 | I was born on central Island as I said . |
| 6 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 7 | I was born on 2 April 1960 in St Andrews in Kingston . |
| 8 | I was born on 2 January 1893 , the third son of Frederick Louis Wilder , F.C.S. , M.I.M.M. , who , at the time , was an assayer in the City . |
| 9 | Each week I continued and with Molly and Peggy Secord as my first Medau teachers , I was hooked on this form of rhythmic movement . |
| 10 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 11 | Remained blissfully unaware till I was seated on this train to Lausanne that reservations and supplements were OBLIGATOIRE on all TGV trains , so I had to fork out about £12 as a result . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just … it 's just … that I do n't have many friends and I do feel sort of isolated , I s'pose — ’ I pulled up short , I was trespassing on forbidden ground , getting close to revealing more than I should . |
| 13 | In the end , perhaps because I was embarking on other work , the matter was quietly dropped . |
| 14 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 15 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 16 | I was put on light duties . |
| 17 | Erm Yes i know I was treading on dodgy ground but we 've got to do something |
| 18 | The journey was not in vain , for I quickly realised that I was walking on man-made terraces . |
| 19 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 20 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 21 | I was working on all this as I cycled . |
| 22 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |
| 23 | I had the idea for this design one day when I was working on some embroidery . |
| 24 | I was working on some shoes on the table , and Will picked one up and looked at it . |
| 25 | At fifteen Deborah has a short story published in a collection and hopes to be a writer ; we had already met whilst I was working on another book . |
| 26 | If I was lying on that floor I 'd be as hungry as a cat outside a birdcage . |
| 27 | On the seats we 'll call it , on the seats of the rowing boat , I was standing on that and my father said to me when I got aboard , do n't do that no more , he said , cos he say if that paddle , what we call the paddle , come out of that sculling hole , he said you 'll go over the side and the boat will go away from you , he said , you 'll be bloody well drowned , which was right never forgot it never . |
| 28 | She felt as though she were treading on thin ice and any false move might plunge her once more into the dark depths of despair . |
| 29 | But what I still do n't understand is , if you were schooled on this stuff , how do you know it 's wrong ? |
| 30 | So I said you were getting on okay |