Example sentences of "it [was/were] on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought it was on a couple of weeks ago oh no it was the whatsit millionaire was n't it ? |
| 3 | It was on a Sunday in July , 1849 , that Charley first introduced his pal Ben to his loved one . |
| 4 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 5 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ It was on a bearing of 280 degrees and was already west of the Falklands , so I 'm sorry but I can not see how you can say it was not sailing away from the Falklands when it was sunk . ’ |
| 7 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 8 | It was on a level with Arnold 's 67 at Troon . |
| 9 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 10 | Well I was trying to draw your attention , right she had pieces of pink paper right that was mi , and on the desk , on our side and on it it had a fe , erm it was she 'd she had received some er goods or something like that there , it was on a piece of pink paper and the signature on it was Houston ! |
| 11 | It was on a visit to Ulverston that he first met Thomas West , who was working on his historical and topographic work on the area . |