Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 2 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 3 | The parties were not on an equal footing ; and generally the payer paid the sum demanded in ignorance that it was not due . |
| 4 | In their inception , these authorities were based on the fact that the payer and payee were not on an equal footing and it was this inequality which gave rise to the right to recovery . |
| 5 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 6 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 7 | But they were n't on an island ; he had other relationships and she did not wish to complicate her life with his inadequacies and hang-ups . |
| 8 | I was not on an errand , if that 's what you mean . ’ |
| 9 | Her fury was still on an upward spiral as he announced , ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine . ’ |
| 10 | Nastase also held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , who was also on an official visit to Spain . |
| 11 | The fresco , completed in the fourteenth-century , was originally on an outside wall , near the campanile . |
| 12 | Pilkington talked to Dr Richard Newman , who was out on an early morning call , on the Thursday . |
| 13 | It was a fact Adrian Warburton was out on an early air test prior to a sortie in AR735 . |
| 14 | At the time he was abroad on an official visit and did not return to France , settling instead in Uruguay . |
| 15 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |