Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 2 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 3 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 4 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |
| 5 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |
| 6 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 7 | The work had dropped off yeah , and then I were on the , on the labour for a short time and erm then I got a job next door to where I lived , straight next door . |
| 8 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 9 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 10 | Two hopping abseils later — I 'm an expert at them now — and I was on the snow . |
| 11 | A month or two ago I was on the phone to the Baltic , to obtain some bloodcurdlingly seditious statement from the local nationalists . |
| 12 | I knew though that they 'd work it out in the end so I was on the look-out for a new job . |
| 13 | I was on the bus from the centre of Bath to the end of our street , Avondale Buildings ( we lived at No. 5 ) , when I casually opened The Listener and saw this May Day poem . |
| 14 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 15 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 16 | I was on the dole at the time , so the amount seemed enormous . |
| 17 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 18 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 19 | And even when I had assured myself I was on the right road , I felt compelled to stop the car a moment to take stock , as it were , I decided to step out and stretch my legs a little and when I did so , I received a stronger impression than ever of being perched on the side of a hill . |
| 20 | I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to know a pickpocket when I was on the beat a million years ago . |
| 22 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 23 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 24 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 25 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 26 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 27 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 29 | After a delicious Chinese dinner , tea and brandy , I was on the point of leaving , but stopped to admire a small framed painting on the wall . |
| 30 | In this I may be vulnerable , for I was on the lookout for miracles and it was while watching Nancy , listening to her and eventually breaking my own icy shield and talking to her , that I came close to seeing what I was looking for . |