Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 2 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 3 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 4 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 5 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 6 | Strategy was necessary to get out on a date alone . |
| 7 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 8 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |
| 9 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |
| 10 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 11 | Chen later confirmed that IBM will exclusively market and support the machine once it is available , lending the lie to gossip that the company was ready to give up on its investment in the company . |
| 12 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 13 | Wetherby , Huntingdon and Market Rasen were all called off on Thursday and the casualty list lengthened yesterday with the abandonments of Sedgefield and Wolverhampton . |
| 14 | Poor old Batts was unable to cash in on the ( then ) current wave of woe over his departure . |