Example sentences of "[was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 2 | She went in , and because her eyes were on ceilings and walls did not realise at once they were , after all , there , two low huddling mounds , under blankets , shawls and all kinds of bits and pieces of stuffs , mostly flowered . |
| 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 | That day , we were on Flupper doing about a million miles an hour . |
| 5 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 6 | One college , New Inn Hall , completely emptied during the war , because erm they were on parliament 's side . |
| 7 | Yes , because we were on route for doggy walking were n't we ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Commander 's Total Flying Experience : 366 hours ( of which 319 were on type ) |
| 10 | ‘ Strangeways , here we come ! ’ quipped Morrissey every day to his workmates — probably — quoting , of course , the famous line uttered by Barry Grant in Brookside five years later , which Morrissey could have seen if he videoed that episode while The Smiths were on tour . |
| 11 | ‘ I was with a band called Muscles until 1978 , ’ he explains , ‘ and while we were on tour in Madrid I noticed the effect of hanging pictures from a brass rail in one of the hotels we stayed in . |
| 12 | England 's management have not supported the view of New Zealand captain Martin Crowe , who earlier this winter raised the issue when his side were on tour in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | When Philip was alone in the wood he imagined all sorts of things about the planes , that they were enemy planes bombing Thirkett , that they were on reconnaissance flights spying , that they were looking for him : a crashed pilot hiding out in the wood . |
| 14 | These establishing sequences were on 16mm film . |
| 15 | Two leading drug traffickers , Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo , were on Dec. 13 , 1989 , sentenced to 116 and 144 years ' imprisonment respectively and deprived of their assets for the murder in 1985 of Enrique Camarena Salazar , a United States Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) official , and his Mexican pilot [ see pp. 33967 ; 36371 ] . |
| 16 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 17 | In the belt extending from Hoxne to the Orwell estuary the percentage of assessments below £2 hardly exceeded twenty , save in a few places , and overall more were on goods than on earnings . |
| 18 | Some were on cartridge paper , some on pages torn from what looked like school exercise books , and some on folded , green-lined computer print-out . |
| 19 | It 's all a far cry from the days when Jason and Howard were on £40 a week YTS schemes , Gary was touring the cabaret circuit , and Robbie and Mark were still wondering what career direction to take . |
| 20 | This was a particular problem in the evenings and at weekends when the registrars were on call and not necessarily in the department . |
| 21 | Ceauşescu 's ‘ family ’ included the coterie of long-time sycophants and aides who lived in the villas around the presidential palace in northern Bucharest and who were on call to attend upon the Comrade should he feel the need for advice , flattery or entertainment . |
| 22 | If the public wanted a system where general practitioners were on call all night then proper resources would have to be made available . |
| 23 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 24 | Stations at Darlington , Newton Aycliffe , Fishburn and Chester-le Street were also operating with one vehicle and each were on call some in each other 's areas . |
| 25 | And during the war you see , we had queues for these things , when they were on ration . |
| 26 | Police suspected that the boys , whose fun and games hurt a lot of people , were on drugs . |
| 27 | Charlie Francis said at the Canadian Enquiry that all the world 's top athletes were on drugs — that was his excuse for encouraging Ben to go on steroids . |
| 28 | They started chasing after all these hippy cult groups and all the criminals were on drugs . |
| 29 | There were other girls there who were on drugs , who were unhappy or sick , but still they did n't do anything . |
| 30 | you would n't think that they were a band like , you can tell they were on drugs , some of them . |