Example sentences of "we [was/were] on [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before that we were on a bit of a roll . |
| 2 | However , as soon as I got here I realised that we were on a treadmill of legislation . |
| 3 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 4 | Times were not good , we had basically clung to outdated ideas and we were on the verge of closing . |
| 5 | We eventually got the repairs done free of charge , despite the fact that we were on the verge of receiving a repair bill totalling £100 . |
| 6 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 7 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 8 | We were on the verge of an affair , but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When is Derek coming ? ’ asked Lili , perhaps because we were on the subject of husbands . |
| 11 | When er when we were on the subject of er the the labour turnover er in the insurance industry , what is the turnover in ? |
| 12 | This single action and comment implied a huge transformation in but one simple step , for suddenly we were on the edge of non-projected activity — ‘ some people outside my house ’ places the children in a markedly different relationship to the drama . |
| 13 | We were on the edge of such a pit . |
| 14 | We also went down into the valley , into , we were on the edge of the Rift Valley , and there there were a different sort of people . |
| 15 | This time last year , most of us believed that we were on the threshold of a new era of peace and co-operation in international affairs . |
| 16 | ‘ When I became Prime Minister we were on the eve of war to free Kuwait . |
| 17 | We did n't go in always , we used to If we were on the top of the hill we used to watch from the top . |
| 18 | We have thought that we were on the brink of the final synthesis at least twice before . |
| 19 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 20 | We were on the interface of bureaucracy and public relations . |