Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I played along , saying I was acting on behalf of Boot-in Inc . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh hello , ’ said Mr Willis , with great presence of mind , ‘ I was calling on behalf of the Conservative Party … ‘ |
| 3 | As the son and grandson of miners , I was reared on stories of coal and collieries . |
| 4 | An hour or so later , I was fishing on Lyne Water , a beautiful tributary of the River Tweed . |
| 5 | One day I had a mind-blowing experience ; I was sent on relief to Sainsbury 's Finchley Road shop . |
| 6 | I WAS BORN ON January 8 , 1942 , exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo . |
| 7 | ‘ I was born on November the twenty-seventh , her birthday . ’ |
| 8 | I was born on Christmas Day nineteen twelve . |
| 9 | " I was born on June 2nd 1922 . |
| 10 | I was born on June the eighth nineteen thirteen in an place called in Carmarthenshire , South Wales . |
| 11 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 12 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 13 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |
| 14 | I was depending on Francesca to look after Thornton , and give him lunch and introduce him around , since she 'll be working with him . ’ |
| 15 | First I was saved in eternity in the plan of God the Father , next I was saved at Calvary through the atoning work of God the Son , finally I was saved on Monday 30 June 19 – through the converting work of God the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 16 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 17 | ‘ One morning I was running on Hampstead Heath and saw a couple coming towards me . |
| 18 | I was talking on Sue , I was saying if you 've got a client who did n't give you the convenient forty two pounds , but said you 'd got forty or thirty pounds to spend , the first thing you 've got to do is take off the two pounds policy fee , so you 're left in this case , with thirty eight pounds . |
| 19 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 20 | ‘ I was weaned on jungle-slugs . |
| 21 | I only have a pound left and I was paid on Friday and that is because I bought food and very basic toiletries . |
| 22 | To my utter horror I was put on Fry House , which was the house for pregnant women at that time . |
| 23 | This resulted in fights and arguments — I was put on report so many times you would n't believe it . |
| 24 | I was put on Heminephrin — it helps to stop the shakes and the sweats . |
| 25 | ‘ It was so bad that I was put on crutches . |
| 26 | ‘ It was a wonderful feeling — as if I was walking on air . ’ |
| 27 | I was arrested on Thursday . ’ |
| 28 | I was stationed on Christmas Island for the British Megaton Trials during 1957–59 and was present for three H-bomb tests . |
| 29 | I remember a horrifying dream I had during one Wimbledon wherein I was sitting on top of a tall step-ladder half-way down the garden in the umpire 's position — not awarding points to the thrusting vegetation below but conducting them with a baton . |
| 30 | I was nourished on stories like these ; William Wallace , slaying half a dozen English soldiers with his fishing rod ; Bruce , before Bannockburn , felling an English knight with one stroke from his slender battle-axe ; and when I was a boy I contracted a mortal dread of dying in bed . |