Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 2 | My first sight of Stonehenge was on a still January morning soon after the war . |
| 3 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 4 | The changes , thought to have taken place in July when ANC president Nelson Mandela was on an overseas tour , apparently excluded him and his deputy , Walter Sisulu , from official policy-making bodies . |
| 5 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 6 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 7 | Now Ellen was on the other line . |
| 8 | By this time Travis was on the horrible scene of the accident , the bloodstained white dress revealing a gruesome sight . |
| 9 | Hay and Schaedler were rescued but the Johnstone was on a one way ticket to Atlantis . |
| 10 | The last time Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were on the same set was eight years ago , for New York , New York . |
| 11 | The quiet Gloucestershire village of Charfield was on the main line of the LMS , situated between Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 12 | Nell was on the other side of the bridge , keeping a look out . |
| 13 | ‘ Find me the most audacious of men ! ’ he ordered his Chief of Staff who , a few weeks later , diffidently informed the Prince that the notorious Major Sharpe was on the half-pay list and evidently unemployed . |
| 14 | The CNAA 's involvement with Scotland was on a smaller scale than in England . |
| 15 | The royal monogram ER was on the front cover and immediately beneath the monogram were the words SUPPLIED FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE . |
| 16 | Of the 8 experienced geologists in post after the war only M. Macgregor , Richey and Wilson were on the Scottish staff in 1931 and the last named had been in England for 5 of the intervening years . |
| 17 | Fergus Urvill was on the other side of the bed , dressed in a kilt , shirt and waistcoat . |
| 18 | When news of some of the executions reached Morocco , the Shah was on a new gold course built for King Hassan by Robert Trent Jones , a celebrated designer of gold courses . |
| 19 | Wilfred was on the extreme right of the front row . |
| 20 | But Sir Bryan was on a hot streak , inspired by the recovery of his clubs . |
| 21 | Uncertain of the kind of climate which awaited her , she 'd consulted her hastily purchased travel guide , to be informed that Copenhagen was on the same latitude as Newcastle-on-Tyne in England and shared similar weather patterns . |
| 22 | If the Arab Palestinians who saw in the Nazis some hope of preventing Jewish immigration into Palestine were on the same level as the SS , were not those Palestinians who oppose Israel today equally guilty ? |
| 23 | Gordon was on the first ascent of Diagonal with Birtwistle , and also climbed with Menlove Edwards . |
| 24 | 2.45 Lord Guest thought that the dependency of £4,000 awarded by Lyell J was on the high side , but could be justified when allowing for possible future increases in earnings and for the effects of inflation . |
| 25 | St Maximin of Trier was on the other side of Otto I 's kingdom from Magdeburg and the Slavs , but this was the monastery from which Adalbert came . |
| 26 | Daak was on the other side of the corridor , closer to the opening doors . |
| 27 | Mellor was on a Middle East tour as a junior Foreign Office Minister in 1988 and international news teams were in tow as he picked on the officer during a visit to the Gaza Strip 's biggest refugee camp . |
| 28 | Mandeville , Southgate and Damien were on the other gallery . |
| 29 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 30 | My first experience of the Lake District was on a circular walking tour made over 25 years ago with two friends . |