Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Prince was on a dahabeeyah last night coming back from Karnak and someone fell overboard . ’ |
| 2 | And this afternoon literally everything connected with the base was on the move . |
| 3 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 4 | The tide was on the turn now . |
| 5 | The chairman was on the Prince 's left , with Angelina opposite him and Lord Beddington next to him . |
| 6 | No erm it 's , it 's more recent than that I think in nineteen fifty the election was on a Tuesday . |
| 7 | By this time , the starter was on the table , and the next course was in the oven . |
| 8 | There were newspapers on a table , the story was on an open page and if Marshall had not closed the paper and pushed it beneath others , Wickham 's curiosity would not have been aroused . |
| 9 | The blood was on the pavement . |
| 10 | And unfortunately , since she could actually hear the machine from the bedroom , it meant that the air-conditioning was on the blink once more ! |
| 11 | The exit to the roof was on the other side of floor 5 so Ralph went back through the door into the large room . |
| 12 | At the 9th tee Lee insisted on playing his driver because the Bear was on the run . |
| 13 | Is there any joint and seems light , if the light were on the light catches them and you can see all the |
| 14 | The enemy was on the alert . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't forget , Roger , the key was on the inside of his chamber . |
| 16 | And after the course of years perhaps I should respond , ‘ It was nice when the primroses were out … ’ or ‘ the leaves had turned golden … ’ or ‘ the snow was on the ground … ’ |
| 17 | The snow was on the turn after a mild spell and the chalet in Moléson , which must look picturesque under a blanket of neige , looking decidedly Pontins decked in half-grass and half-ice . |
| 18 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 19 | The murder was on the 12th , the 13th found him in Farnham , the 15th in Petersfield , and on the 17th the fugitive was in Portsmouth , trying desperately to join the Marines . |
| 20 | In five of the six cases the main focus of the headline was on the woman 's marital status : Church wife 's boy lover ; Young wife 's sexy games ; Sex in Jacuzzi for wife and lover , aged 12 ; A ‘ sex mad ’ wife 's schoolboy lovers ; A wife 's ten boy lovers . |
| 21 | I quote from the graphic account of the wife of a teacher who suffered a false accusation of this kind : ’ An article about the allegation appeared in heavy type on the front page of the local newspaper and the headline was on the hoardings outside the newsagents . |
| 22 | None of the speakers suggested by the DUC were on the programme ; all the speakers , while ‘ allegedly neutral ’ , were considered pro-mining by the DUC . |
| 23 | The major focus of the research was on the large superstore located in the Bowthorpe shopping centre . |
| 24 | As he 'd told Alison , spitting and scratching were nothing new but that was mainly when the car was on the road . |
| 25 | ‘ The car was on the wrong side of the road travelling fast . |
| 26 | In Gladstone Williams the defendant was on a bus when he witnessed what lie believed to be an attack by a large man on another , smaller youth . |
| 27 | Although SSAP 2 was said to have been applicable , the important caveat was added that in accounting to the Government for the purpose of producing the appropriation accounts , the accounting was on the cash basis . |
| 28 | Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on . |
| 29 | But caught red-handed with a bomb in the glove compartment of the car she was driving , the mother-of-seven was on a mission to kill . |
| 30 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |