Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students at Beida , some of whom were on the verge of taking to the streets , probably feared the possible repercussions and with the end of term imminent , they decided that open protest was not worth the risk . |
| 2 | The staff of both periodicals were approached by many artists , some of whom were on the list and many more who were not . |
| 3 | He would never forget how Samuel Reichmann and his partner , Emmanuel Hollander , had been fined for trading with the Germans by the Jewish Court of Tangier , and how one or both of them were on the blacklist of the British Consulate . |
| 4 | The girls said some of them were on the pill , others were n't because their mams and dads do n't know and they dare n't go to the family planning clinic . |
| 5 | It 's like all the , you know , the office , and they said all of them were on the opening today , all , all the stores . |
| 6 | And all of a sudden three big juggernauts came into the camp and one of them was on the back of a truck . |
| 7 | She sat bolt upright in the back seat during the hour long journey , some of which was on a motorway . |
| 8 | Police denied any knowledge of who was on the bike . |
| 9 | A constituent of mine was on the verge of being evicted . |
| 10 | A bit of it was on the television . |
| 11 | Unlike most of what was on the menu , two wines were actually available , a semi-sweet white and a semi-sweet red . |
| 12 | The gist of the note was that the vessel ahead of us was on the suspect list and had arrived from a foreign port . |
| 13 | When all forty-eight of us were on the stage , we could n't kick in a straight line , so we danced in a semi-circle . |
| 14 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 15 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 16 | ‘ We wanted to record ‘ Polar Bear ’ ( mooted third single ) like it was on the LP — you know , more of a dancey sort of thing — it would have been too light to put out as single , and ‘ Then ’ was good to back up the first year of The Charlatans . |
| 17 | I was very pleased er when I came to put the book together to find that er most of er most of the actual walks corresponded with what was on the paper , which was nice , so I did n't have to waste much time . |
| 18 | I deliberately did n't see the play because there 's always a danger in getting too obsessed with what was on the stage and feeling you must n't tamper with it when you translate it to film . |
| 19 | A second or two later , Maybelle , her attention drawn from what was on the stall to what stood beside it , also recognised Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall . |
| 20 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 21 | However , they would differ on details like the distribution of stars and , even more , on what was on the covers of their magazines . |
| 22 | ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’ |
| 23 | We stop to chat about national affairs or the state of the Common , hardly ever about what was on the box last night . |
| 24 | The methods Souness used when he set about a struggling Rangers , turned them around and picked up Championships and cups , prepared us for what was on the way at Anfield . |
| 25 | ‘ When visiting patients at mealtimes , ’ he says , ‘ I have been repeatedly appalled at what was on the family table : things like tinned vegetables , white bread , biscuits , sweet drinks , and , in place of porridge , the ubiquitous sweetened breakfast cereals . ’ |