Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] on a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 was receiving inpatient treatment or was on a waiting list for inpatient treatment
2 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 .
3 She lapsed into a coma and was on a life support machine .
4 Col Phailes , a payload specialist , is attached to the USA Industrial College of the armed forces and was on a UK fact-finding tour with colleagues .
5 His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London .
6 Certainly , it surpassed in bulk and cost anything yet seen in Romania and was on a scale approaching Imelda Marcos 's spendthrift acquisitions .
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