Example sentences of "who [was/were] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that respect , I was different from other reporters who were on a big story one day and a ‘ bun worry ’ the next . |
| 2 | At Campbell Island he met John Biscoe [ q.v. ] , who was on a similar search for land in the Antarctic . |
| 3 | The commissioner was Judge Ireland who was on a temporary transfer from Scotland . |
| 4 | On Oct. 7 , a friendship and co-operation treaty was initialled by Dienstbier and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the presence of Havel and the German President , Richard von Weizsäcker , who was on a five-day state visit to Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | Eila Karjalainen was a Finnish student who was on a hitch-hiking holiday in England . |
| 6 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |