Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was receiving inpatient treatment or was on a waiting list for inpatient treatment |
| 2 | It was widely believed that North Korea had the capacity — or was on the verge of achieving it — to produce a nuclear weapon . |
| 3 | The first defendant learnt of this but also became aware that no copy of his report had been sent to the tribunal or was on the plaintiff 's file at the hospital . |
| 4 | And that were on a Wednesday and then on Saturday when I went and asked him come home , got changed , and went down to the club . |
| 5 | That 's a those were the little erm things that were on the tables . |
| 6 | I was spellbound by the brass bedstead and all the knick-knacks , but what held my attention most were the knitted bedspreads that were on the bed and draped over the chairs . |
| 7 | It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ? |
| 8 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 9 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 10 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 11 | A mass-circulation paper was more risky , but it was much more exciting , and with the bigger sales that were on the cards , it could be very profitable . |
| 12 | Woodward opened the folder that was on the desk and took out a paper . |
| 13 | Christ that was on the way ! |
| 14 | No I do n't feel guilty , I mean I would I would love to see everybody that was on the platform still alive . |
| 15 | Monty was supposed to be on the wagon and I certainly did n't see him drinking , until I discovered that every time he passed the bar he 'd pick up any bottle that was on the bar and drink it . |
| 16 | Lee got up and ran back to the toilet , picking up the helmet that was on the floor . |
| 17 | And erm I rang the lady it turned out it was mother that was on the phone at Manchester . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , have a look at this interview that was on the News last night . ’ |
| 19 | erm we 're not expecting to see a huge amount of discounting in the summer months , so erm because the capacity that was on the market this year is going to very much match the demand from customers |
| 20 | Any name that was on the list was there because Nikos had put it there . |
| 21 | And Jim er Bill grabbed the camera that was on the mantlepiece and he got a shot , not of me , but he got a shot of Pat and her friend and Bryan and er , it was er , er , something I 'll never forget . |
| 22 | Jan did you lift the money that was on the side here ? |
| 23 | These had a privately run deposit-insurance scheme that was on the point of going bust , following the failure in October of the two-branch Heritage Loan and Investment of Providence . |
| 24 | The man that was on the mower , they had an eye to that they would just wait until it was off the the Where it was cut you see ? |
| 25 | " That one that was on the telly … " |
| 26 | Do you remember that programme that was on the telly , where those people went ? |
| 27 | He reached out for his tie that was on the table . |
| 28 | This Mrs Melburn , the parson 's wife … she seems a motherly figure , in a way , but that bit ’ — she pointed to the page of a letter that was on the table — ‘ that bit tells you why they came this way . ’ |
| 29 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 30 | Well my fucking , my deep fat fryer 's sitting out we got an electric one we used to have the one that was on the cooker |