Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were on the ramparts with you during the battle . |
| 2 | That 's a those were the little erm things that were on the tables . |
| 3 | The porcelain horse , the cactus , the blue bowl and the drinks were on the shelves . |
| 4 | It seems that in some areas schools lost interest in the DCSL visits once the books were on the shelves . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) improved staff interest in and promotion of the library , and greater awareness by colleagues of which books were on the shelves : |
| 6 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 7 | And then all the , all the little children , some of them with very serious illnesses , but seeing how brave they were on the wards , it was a very moving six months . |
| 8 | We were on the moors , close to Wuthering Heights , when I caught sight of two men talking to her . |
| 9 | He never knew his father , his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars . |
| 10 | To encourage himself as much as anything , he ventured a handful of general questions about Neferukhebit 's activities on the days leading up to her death — questions which resulted in conventional answers , the activities of any rich young girl marking time between the end of her education and the arrival of her husband — for these girls were on the fringes of the royal household , and work such as Taheb did — was taboo to their class . |
| 11 | We were on the doorsteps , the bobbies having a smoke . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , if you were on the railways we 'd get free tickets wherever we wanted to go . ’ |
| 13 | We were on the greens fine , but we could n't get off them . |
| 14 | Many rehousing schemes were on the peripheries of the conurbations , often in adjacent local authorities , some still designated as rural districts . |
| 15 | Not that he was short of offers , but most of them , before the banal fashion for numbered sequels , were on the lines of After the Graduate , Another Graduate , Shadow of the Graduate , The Graduate Comes Home and Song of the Graduate , leading inevitably to Son of the Graduate . |
| 16 | His contact had not merely tipped him off that drugs were on the premises , he had told him where to look . |
| 17 | They got the feeling that we were on the ropes and I , I mean if |
| 18 | Twelve of the boreholes were on the areas of the Coventry , Grantham , Shaftesbury and Witney map sheets ; the remaining eight were in the Bedford area , in connection with the Fuller 's Earth project . |
| 19 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |
| 20 | On April 5th the Treasury team started its final burst of work — the last details to be sorted out were on the exemptions from the tax , and the scrapping of the hated poll-tax register . |
| 21 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 22 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 23 | At about 3 in the afternoon , the first newspapers announcing England 's declaration of war were on the streets . |
| 24 | People were on the streets being senselessly violent to the police , which I thought was a good thing at the time . |
| 25 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 26 | ANIMAL rights campaigners were on the streets of Darlington on Saturday to publicise a debate in Europe next week on cosmetic testing . |
| 27 | Up on Albert Hill in all likelihood its operations were on the banks of the eponymous river where the Cleveland Industrial Estate is now it had a massive and profitable operation covering 22 acres , employing 1,000 men and boys and working 90 furnaces . |
| 28 | And , no it were all bloody big grey streaks and that on me , it were on the sheets . |
| 29 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 30 | The titles of both episodes are also confused in the way they were on the Police Squad TV series . |