Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv] 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 jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 3 | They were flapping round on the |
| 4 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 5 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 6 | That 's where they were roosting overnight on the trees . |
| 7 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 10 | While they were working outside on the roof , Chola was inside sweeping down the walls and ceiling , the beams and rafters . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 14 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 15 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 16 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 19 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 20 | On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |