Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 2 | We were going to tell her on her birthday , that 's two weeks from today . ’ |
| 3 | He said you were going to change me on the medication , |
| 4 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 5 | You were going to stick it on my windscreen . ’ |
| 6 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 7 | I thought I thought you were going to get one on your desk , one like Jed 's that hums all the time . |
| 8 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 9 | If you try saying ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ with a level tone ( rather as though you were trying to sing them on a steady note ) you may find the result does not sound natural , and indeed English speakers do not use level tones on one-syllable utterances very frequently . |
| 10 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 11 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |
| 12 | They 've been putting pressure on this chap Morris to renew Sykes 's fellowship , and the clincher is he was going to do it on Monday . ’ |
| 13 | It was then that I realized that he was going to leave me on my own . |
| 14 | ‘ I was going to leave it on your desk for you to find tomorrow morning , but it 's much more satisfactory to deliver it in person . ’ |
| 15 | That 's what I was going to ask you on those things . |
| 16 | Émile was going to revenge himself on Jean-Claude for what he regarded as his arrogance . |
| 17 | His uncle was going to take him on one when they next went to Cannes . |
| 18 | So I mean if the man was going to take it on himself I mean er he used the French letter then when that clinic started up as I would say , the women would go there you see stop that lark because they did n't even they did n't even let , er take very kindly to the French letters some of them did n't you know , the men . |
| 19 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 20 | And now she was going to pile it on thick and heavy . |
| 21 | I thought everyone was going to recognise me on the street , ’ Now his favourite leisure activities are watching television — ‘ I call it my sofa therapy ’ — and having friends over for dinner . |
| 22 | He was going to sack me on the spot . |