Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 32 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 33 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 34 | It was sunning itself on the path . |
| 35 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 36 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 37 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 38 | Because what Niki was doing-the subject was Niki 's contract and terms for 1977 — was putting himself on the same level as Enzo . |
| 39 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 40 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 41 | Siberia for me , but all they did was put me on a plane heading for Berlin . |
| 42 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 43 | She 'd washed her hair and was drying it on the hessian towel . |
| 44 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 45 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 46 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 47 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 48 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |