Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite interesting that it 's the theatre that 's doing it , I was on a course last week in Sussex , a management course and there was Bradford theatre companies were there erm , from all the different theatres and they , they organize it and they organize the volunteers |
| 2 | ‘ I hear you were on the box last night , ’ said small , cheerful voices in Dyson 's ear . |
| 3 | who was on the ward last night and sister that was on today and I wan na know why and how he fell out of bed when I got up there they said would you like to come in , I said I most certainly would , she said erm , what would you like to say ? |
| 4 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 5 | It was on the television last night . |
| 6 | We stop to chat about national affairs or the state of the Common , hardly ever about what was on the box last night . |