Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And luck , a commodity the spirited teenager had never been short of , played a crucial part in the events that were to set her on the path to millions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 5 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 6 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 7 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the front , though , they had taken them through the gate and were playing them on the windows of Hilda Machin 's sitting-room . |
| 11 | All these people were smacking her on the back , and touching her and congratulating her , and expressing surprise and delight . |
| 12 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 13 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 14 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 15 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 16 | Yes , when they was fitting them on the H M S Gothic they sent , they Birkenhead and I asked if they , so I stopped work , all Saturday and this , this er big er were it ? |
| 17 | I was in a shop once , buying scented candles , and on the radio came Steve Wright with a collage of Smiths ’ songs , and I got a distinct chill , almost as though the hand of death was tapping me on the shoulder , saying : ‘ put yer candles down , it 's time to go ! ’ ’ |
| 18 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 19 | He was in highly sociable mood and , bereft of any equals , was addressing me on the subject of the decline of western civilisation and the loss of old standards . |
| 20 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |
| 21 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 22 | Their eyes met , sheer delight in each other in both pairs , and then Luke was kissing her on the mouth with so much loving tenderness that she could n't speak for quite a while . |
| 23 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 24 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 25 | She had stayed at Thomas a while and now this officer was to put her on a stage for home . |
| 26 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 27 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 28 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |