Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt the moistness , felt the narrow aperture , then slowly , her eyes never leaving his , she lowered herself down as if she were impaling herself on his flesh . |
| 2 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 3 | You were congratulating yourselves on the fact earlier , I know . ’ |
| 4 | While you were congratulating yourself on dodging Louie , Ambrose had you in view all the time . ’ |
| 5 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 6 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 7 | And when you were carrying it on your back into the sheds for the cattle , the juice would be would be soaking through the bags . |
| 8 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 9 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 10 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 11 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 12 | At dinner one evening , we were congratulating him on getting the job and he mentioned this educational remit and that he had no idea what to do . |
| 13 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 14 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 15 | We were watching everything on television . |
| 16 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
| 17 | The worst one was when we were doing one on Women 's Studies and I said look , let's have your title and let's have some kind of format . |
| 18 | The townfolk always stared as if we were doing it on purpose , and that made us feel worse . |
| 19 | Hewlett-Packard Co recently sent out pairs of natty sunglasses to the UK computer press bearing the message ‘ you 'll be needing these on May 5th , ’ ( well some of the poor loves must have thought things rather fetching as they were wearing them on Olivetti 's jaunt to Paris a couple of days later ) . |
| 20 | The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests ! |
| 21 | Somehow , somewhere , she got the impression that they were congratulating themselves on Martin and Rachel 's failure ; on their very irresponsible approach to Phoebe 's education . |
| 22 | They 've shown opposition to the introduction of L M S right from the start and put every obstacle possible in the way of its success , and its implementation , and yet there they were congratulating themselves on how well it was working . |
| 23 | He had a curious feeling of release ; other people had taken portions of his grief upon themselves , and they were expressing it on his behalf . |
| 24 | They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings . |
| 25 | Well the other evening they were showing something on T V , one of these doctors ' , doctors ' practices that are opting out or whatever . |
| 26 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |