Example sentences of "it [was/were] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You said it was on a road . |
| 32 | It was on a fishing expedition in late autumn a year or two ago that we were visited by a number of pomarine skuas , no doubt birds from northern Siberia which were making their way towards wintering quarters in the south Atlantic . |
| 33 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 34 | ‘ If the craft was sitting on a launch pad — nose cone upwards — and if it was on a planet where the gravity was really powerful , so you were pulled back into your seat exactly the way you were when you were accelerating hard … . ’ |
| 35 | It was on a descent pattern . |
| 36 | I think it was on a truck . |
| 37 | Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to . |
| 38 | It was on a rather cold morning at the end of October , just before breakfast , that we heard footsteps on the stairs outside our flat . |
| 39 | I was just thinking if it was on a page you could have got that |
| 40 | the binder was a great help you see it was on a a a Had the cutting and then it went on to the platform and the it went up |
| 41 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 42 | Swayne waited for some comment on his revelations , a word of commendation , even thanks , but when Wycliffe spoke it was on a quite different subject . |
| 43 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 44 | ‘ But officer , ’ ( my scream was silent as an epidural ) , ‘ it was on a single yellow line . ’ |
| 45 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 46 | It was on a Tuesday that it happened . |
| 47 | And the were they lived , it was on a a bit of a rise about the square in and he was a very keen gardener . |
| 48 | So we went , it was on a Friday afternoon I think , in June . |
| 49 | And it was on a brilliant sunny Wednesday morning that we drove into the car park at Martin 's Haven from where the boat leaves for Skomer . |
| 50 | It was on a bright spring morning , while Morag was eating her breakfast , that Granny said , ‘ Auch , this house needs a good clean — out after the winter . |
| 51 | It was on a temporary basis . |
| 52 | At it was on a nice day it was all right . |
| 53 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 54 | . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well . |
| 55 | because part of the reason why were very successful and profitable was because they 're very cagey on money we spend and on , on the resources erm , they had been advertising but it was on a very small limited regional budget , national advertising is actually , they 'd of been a or too |
| 56 | That 's right , it was on a twelve twelve volt erm wiper motor . |
| 57 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 58 | It seems it served as a market centre because it was on a major Roman road . |
| 59 | By 1984 , Fibres had moved through the period of mere survival to realize that it was on a winning track and could expand , guided by some astute marketing of some of the exciting new products then coming through . |
| 60 | Even though I know Tina 's is C two one one Y C L if it was on a different car I 'd probably look at it and think |