Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
2 | If families like this one were on the wrong side in the Civil War , their property was sequestered by Parliament , but it appears that John Long petitioned to have it restored as his inheritance in 1650 , and it was probably he who built the present house . |
3 | In the first half they were on the defensive for all but five minutes . |
4 | Who 's that who was on the telephone ? |
5 | That one was on the top before , that one was . |
6 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
7 | After all they were on the verge of an amazing come back . |
8 | no , it was n't a filter , all it was on the end of a cigarette what you put in your mouth , it was a cork tip , but there was no filter , no filter inside it , the tobacco come right to the end |
9 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
10 | Ken 's friendships and the way he established them continued to surprise those who were on the periphery of his activities . |