Example sentences of "[det] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ .
2 Who 's that who was on the telephone ?
3 That one was on the top before , that one was .
4 They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog .
5 After all they were on the verge of an amazing come back .
6 no , it was n't a filter , all it was on the end of a cigarette what you put in your mouth , it was a cork tip , but there was no filter , no filter inside it , the tobacco come right to the end
7 This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years .
8 Ken 's friendships and the way he established them continued to surprise those who were on the periphery of his activities .
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