Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 2 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 3 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 4 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 5 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 6 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 7 | What was this war coming to and where would it all end when they were taking on lassies to help fight it ? |
| 8 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |
| 9 | They were in a tank like this when they were fired on by American A10 tankbusters . |
| 10 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 11 | When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property . |
| 12 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 13 | The move came as relief operations to Sarajevo airport were suspended after a brave RAF pilot saved his plane when it was fired on while taking off . |
| 14 | The tanker had been transporting oil from the United Kingdom North Sea terminal at Sullom Voe to La Coruña 's refinery , when it was driven on to rocks during a sudden squall . |
| 15 | Probably much of his success as a teacher sprang from this , for the young greatly enjoyed his moments of iconoclasm , even when it was carried on to the cricket field where he had no knowledge of and certainly no respect for the laws of the game , as a current Member of Parliament may remember . |
| 16 | It might of course have been a more acceptable blue when it was put on because it changes |
| 17 | Well they might be a friendly , oh I do n't really know but er he 's so busy you see and he 's busy all kinds of day and night , now then , we asked him a while ago to be more careful when he was switching on the freezer units at night because they were waking people up , we asked him er a while ago if he 'd be more careful learning up at six o'clock in the morning because the chain and that we could n't sleep in the morning like , and all disturbing us all like that |
| 18 | The manager had explained to him when he was taken on that the insurance people insisted the wharf was guarded at all times before they would agree to give cover . |
| 19 | … and , left , when he was captured on |
| 20 | ‘ Back there in the lift earlier you did n't instantly and gallantly leap to my defence and punch Florian on the nose when he was carrying on about how undesirable I am ! ’ |
| 21 | The beauty of it was that Campese could cause such a fearful commotion even when he was running on to nothing more appetising than set piece possession , either from the scrum or the line-out . |