Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you got into the C C Q erm for me it sounded like a string of questions erm I could n't hear any at all or any open questions into any of the answers that were given to you on question . |
| 2 | A set of Edinburgh Crystal glasses and a decanter were presented to him on behalf of Lyles by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 3 | He was bailed on Feb. 5 , but further charges relating to another 10,000,000 yen were lodged against him on Feb. 17 . |
| 4 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 5 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 6 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 7 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 8 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 9 | from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery … |
| 10 | Such meals as she ate were brought to her on trays by Janet , meals that Alexandra and Dora would plan with minutest care in the kitchen . |
| 11 | We were talking about it on the way back . |
| 12 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 13 | And all the other farmers were paying the guys who were working for them on the side , ten pound a day , for working from nine o'clock in the morning till about five at night . |
| 14 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 15 | Henry Calverley , a friend of the family , asked for the arrow to use as a trophy and it was given to him on condition he solemnly promised not to reveal its origin . |
| 16 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 17 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 18 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 19 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 20 | In the present case , the primary argument of the revenue has been that the repayment of sums paid by Woolwich was made by them on a voluntary basis , i.e. that the payment was repaid ex gratia . |
| 21 | There was this old lady comes towards me ; she was fussing about her luggage , that a porter was pushing behind her on a trolley . |
| 22 | Yes , that sounded plausible : he would n't take it just because it was offered to him on a plate . |
| 23 | Cinzia Miletti was lying across it on her back , bent slightly to one side , fully clothed , her eyes closed . |
| 24 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 25 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 26 | Rather , he was to look after it on behalf of the grantor 's family . |
| 27 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 28 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 29 | Hurley was waiting for them on the tarmac near the terminal in his big blue BMW 520i . |
| 30 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |