Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] road " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 2 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 3 | It was easy to assume , in the euphoria of this new found self-reliance which Israel found so difficult to break , that the occupied territories were on the road to political freedom . |
| 4 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 5 | By last month tens of thousands of people were on the road to the few relief centres that the government runs . |
| 6 | A week after they arrived at Kinghorn , they were on the road back to Inverkeithing . |
| 7 | Now these tragic people were on the road . |
| 8 | They went all the way by car and she does n't think they were on the road very long . |
| 9 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 10 | ‘ If they were on the road we could n't hear them from the house , and I truly doubt that anyone would go home via the graveyard and the woods . |
| 11 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 12 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 13 | Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster . |
| 14 | We chose the best of a not too brilliant bunch , made a ludicrous offer which to our astonishment was accepted , and we were on the road . |
| 15 | They were on the road again just before four , when the fierce pin-point sun had lost some of its bite . |
| 16 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 17 | You said it was on a road . |
| 18 | I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere . |
| 19 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 20 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 21 | Oh we will protest , too much methinks , that we do not miss it , will recall the struggle , the failures , the inadequacies ; recall life as it was on the road , for a time anyhow , though I daresay soon enough out imagination will take over transforming us into giants . |
| 22 | On 29 August 1745 the younger Stuart , still only 20 , had slipped secretly away and on 24 October 1745 , while he was on the road , a Treaty of Alliance was drawn up at Fontainebleau , under which the French king promised ‘ James III ’ , as he was styled , to help him against their ‘ common enemy ’ , described , for diplomatic reasons , not as king of England but as Elector of Hanover . |
| 23 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 24 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 25 | ‘ McEnroe was on the road and there was Tatum and her fellow in this private , romantic booth , ’ said one . |
| 26 | He was on the road for a week , making sketches in villages along the way , intrigued particularly by the lives of weavers . |
| 27 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |
| 28 | We hired the Cemetery Road Vestry Hall , organized a bar and some records and the show was on the road . |
| 29 | As soon as she was on the road she began to run . |
| 30 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |