Example sentences of "was [verb] them on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 8 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |