Example sentences of "we [was/were] on [art] verge " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Times were not good , we had basically clung to outdated ideas and we were on the verge of closing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We were on the verge of letting him go because we had George Reilly and a couple of other strikers on the books . |
| 6 | We were on the verge of an affair , but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , just as we were on the verge of starting an affair , he heard that I had other irons in the fire . ’ |