Example sentences of "they [was/were] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intolerant workers tended to show cycles longer or shorter than twenty-four hours when they were on shifts , although they had normal twenty-four cycles when they had returned to day-work . |
| 2 | you would n't think that they were a band like , you can tell they were on drugs , some of them . |
| 3 | And course they were on hinges , the doors , on er the hinges on in the centre hole under the water and course you always knew where then to , where to fit what we used to call fish for th fish for the chain . |
| 4 | I mean they were on farms all round here and erm people used to , they used to do a lot of toys . |
| 5 | When we launched our boat in Rangkul for the first time and motored towards the islands where the birds were said to nest , it was with considerable relief that we saw there were indeed geese , and they were on eggs . |
| 6 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 7 | And they were on points . |
| 8 | The crutches , they were on crutches |
| 9 | yeah but if they , if they were on slips they would n't be opposite anyway , would they ? |