Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] was on " in BNC.
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| 1 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 2 | The figure I gave was on erm sites which were allocated |
| 3 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 4 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 5 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 6 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 7 | We were all working flat out and the only break we had was on the second Sunday when Isvik was on the slip and the Yard closed . |
| 8 | what happened next was a landslide … everything Southend did went right … every shot they hit was on target … and every chance was taken … |
| 9 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |