Example sentences of "that they were [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 20 the Indian authorities rejected Pakistani government charges of human rights violations , claiming that they were based on a " terrorist disinformation campaign " ; the most dramatic allegation related to the mass rape on Feb. 23 of 30-60 women and girls when 800 troops of the 4th Rajput Rifles had sealed off the village of Kunan Poshpura . |
| 2 | Internal dating in Fragments B to D indicates with all but certainty that they were written on a daily progression ; B at the rate of three pairs of verses a day from 27 July to 29 October 1759 ; one verse a day from 30 October 1759 to 1 June 1760 ; and three verses a day from 2 June to 26 August 1760 ; C at the rate of two verses a day from 21 February to 12 May 1761 ; and D at the rate of one verse a day from 12 June 1762 to 30 January 1763 . |
| 3 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 4 | By the middle of January 1918 the Labour leaders knew that they were sitting on a potential volcano . |
| 5 | Two golden shafts of light from the yard lamp crossed their bodies and he could see that they were lying on a mixture of old sacks and loose hay . |