Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charles Laubscher and I were on standby , ’ relates Gerald Bellamy , ‘ and for some reason did not hear the scramble . |
| 2 | but when they were ringing I were on phone to John 's mum because there were someone hanging about house , so I talked to John 's mum for ages on phone and then Debbie rang , did n't she ? |
| 3 | I were on phone to her and Michael took the phone off and he went Shelley , she said what ? |
| 4 | In fact before when I was tha when I was young I was I met th I were on night shift meself ganging . |
| 5 | Years later Moira and I were on board the Queen Elizabeth II as guest lecturers when she sailed from Hong Kong to Acapulco in Mexico as part of that year 's world cruise . |
| 6 | ‘ What I would like to know is why you saw fit to tell barefaced lies to your grandmother while your Dad and I were on holiday . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
| 8 | And it and it actually cleared up , got better while I were on holiday . |
| 9 | And I were on fire from head to foot ! |
| 10 | That 's how I were on Monday when I were full of cold , I went to bed in end , cos it were warmer . |
| 11 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 12 | ‘ Two boys in Cincinnati when I was on vacation , and a boy named Mickey Swearinger and somebody else I do n't remember . ’ |
| 13 | I mean I tried it once , and it did n't go down too well , even though I was on lunch . |
| 14 | I was on holiday when the four-hour , much-acclaimed version of La Belle Noiseuse was released , and having seen the two-hour version , La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , I 'm rather grateful . |
| 15 | While I was on holiday the clinic tested a blood sample without my permission and established that it was HIV positive . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , I was on holiday at the time . ’ |
| 17 | I write this on a lovely , hot , sunny day and wishing I was on holiday . |
| 18 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 19 | ‘ You remember four years ago , when I was on holiday by the sea , in Brittany ? ’ |
| 20 | Sort of , when we went to see Jan 's mother for Christmas , I was saying to myself yeah , mm this time last year I was on holiday from work |
| 21 | I was on holiday were n't I ? |
| 22 | Er , no I was on holiday for a week |
| 23 | Well , now , I was n't , cos I was on holiday at the last meeting , so I could n't check , I have down Grace , but it was also queried at the time . |
| 24 | Last year , right , I was on holiday in the South of France and I , I 'd made friends with these two German people and I 'm a bit wary of German people anyway , cos of what 's happened and everything . |
| 25 | Yes , if you can , if you can recognise it , or if you 've got , or if , several members of erm , several students we had when I was on grocery at Camden , we had to , I think it was twenty eight on Saturday afternoon , they might have been on checkouts , well I mean , they 're still scheduled to my , I 'm saying out of that about four of them er , are still working at Camden full-time . |
| 26 | But rigging and sails did , and once I was on deck , coiling and sorting the ropes and making notes of what I would need , I barely noticed anything else , time slipping by and my mind so concentrated on the job that I barely felt the wind force rising , small frozen particles of snow driving almost horizontally . |
| 27 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
| 28 | ‘ Last night … when I was on guard , see . ’ |
| 29 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
| 30 | I was on level four , I' [ d rescued hostages , destroyed the nuclear reactor , and was all set to finally put an end to the madman . |