Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 2 | They were flapping round on the |
| 3 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 4 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 5 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 6 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 7 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 8 | They were sitting out on the terrace on the low wall of which stood , in pairs , stone figures from classical mythology of a rather embarrassing kind . |
| 9 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 10 | In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham . |
| 11 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 12 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |