Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I told you once what my views were on marriage . |
| 2 | Oxford ; desperate to get even with Swindon , anxious to show their skills were on top for most of the first half . |
| 3 | She went in , and because her eyes were on ceilings and walls did not realise at once they were , after all , there , two low huddling mounds , under blankets , shawls and all kinds of bits and pieces of stuffs , mostly flowered . |
| 4 | Rose took the hand she held out , but her eyes were on Theda 's copper crown . |
| 5 | Her eyes were on Theda 's in a look so compelling that Theda felt as if her mind were being dragged out to be read . |
| 6 | Its sites were on variable , disturbed and fertilised soils and mainly included only the less vulnerable trees . |
| 7 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 8 | The emphasis of their tours was on education and recreation for students and by the 1890s they were offering cruises to Norway for eight guineas . |
| 9 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 10 | There was a nervous quality about her , which was now explained also : her nerves were on edge as she slowly perambulated . |
| 11 | Perhaps , together , these totems could banish the modern-day spectres of inflation and spending cuts ; of strike action that endangered hospital patients or people whose houses were on fire ; of lying politicians and rampaging football hooligans ; of the seemingly irreversible rise in unemployment , and the terrible inner-city disturbances of the summer of 1981 , from which the country was still reeling , and which had brought a suddenly sinister resonance to otherwise neighbourly sounding places . |
| 12 | There were minor improvements : capacity charges to Boards whose peaks were on Sunday and did not coincide with system peaks were reduced a little in 1950 and further in 1954 ; an allowance was made for lower-cost regional energy imports in 1957 . |
| 13 | It was organised by the Chamber of Shipping , whose personnel were on hand to help with enquiries . |
| 14 | Elsewhere in the city several Expressionist Pub Crawls have been organised to promote the work of eight local expressionist artists , whose paintings were on show in six pubs . |
| 15 | He had been shown which locker in the room was his and told that one of his cell-mates was on work detail , the other in the exercise yard . |
| 16 | Crouched in the shadows , Scathach watched , but his eyes were on Tallis , not on her fingers as they moved swiftly over the charm . |
| 17 | His eyes were on Hasan . |
| 18 | His eyes were on Rostov 's face as he strapped it on . |
| 19 | His eyes were on Della . |
| 20 | His eyes were on Meredith , who was framed against the peeling ochre wall , her flame-burst of hair a startling contrast to her pale cream skin and the delicate snowflakes which lay scattered on her head like confetti . |
| 21 | During the tight formation take-off his eyes were on Stefan and the Spitfire as they climbed to get on top of the haze . |
| 22 | His eyes were on Isobel , who was staring at her hands , and Dorothy felt a wave of jealousy at Isobel 's Dresden china beauty and her look of compliant gentleness . |
| 23 | Instead of beavering away in his bathroom with developer , fixer and other evil brews , he was able to take his shots , plug the camera into the Macintosh DTP kit being used by Alistair Smith and Gill Twyman to produce the convention newspaper and — hey presto ! — his prints were on screen . |
| 24 | In June 1917 his paintings were on exhibition again at the improvised gallery in the Rue Huyghens , where Modigliani , Kisling and Zadkine each had a wall with their works displayed . |
| 25 | Mr Dodd realised his hands were on fire and ran from the garage . |
| 26 | Even his sheets were on fire . |
| 27 | He stabbed his chips like a killer and poured beer down his throat as though his guts were on fire . |
| 28 | His clothes were on fire and he was screaming ‘ put me out . ’ ’ |
| 29 | His clothes were on fire and he was screaming ‘ put me out ’ . ’ |
| 30 | While his thoughts were on Venus the landscape was rubbed away like chalk from a blackboard and he has lost the means of identifying the newly discovered stars … |