Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm there were hardly any chains left on it . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman suggested that women might feel that they were under considerable pressure to work on Sundays . |
| 3 | During the middle of the contract , when work was in full spate , there were about 140 men employed on the site . |
| 4 | Tithes were simply proportional taxes levied on the output of the land and herds and used to support the Levites or to be set aside for the poor — widows , orphans , etc . |
| 5 | Mr Amos reported that there were over 30 members meeting on two nights in the week . |
| 6 | Indeed Saifullah Khan was able to report even from her data collected in the mid-1970s that some recent migrants , especially those best equipped to survive in Britain economically without the support of kin , already were considerably relaxing arrangements based on the purdah system . |
| 7 | She went home once a month to combat any such suggestion , and told her family that there were very amusing people living on the Thames . |
| 8 | There were too many thoughts pressing on her , too many instincts that bristled inside her . |
| 9 | There was usually some man waiting on the other side of the hole , like some sea creature waiting to grab its prey , and after I had settled on the seat , there would be a significant pause . |
| 10 | Carrie and Fred Bradley had come to accept that a drop in their weekly takings was inevitable and there was never any pressure put on the men to leave once they had finished their morning tea or coffee . |
| 11 | And er there was very little money spent on the roads at that time , the , the railways had been the great carriers of everything and the motorcars were just coming in . |