Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] dole " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 2 | We worked a wee half a week and were on the dole , Monday , Tuesday and Wednesday we 'd be on the dole , then work Thursday , Friday and Saturday morning . |
| 3 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 4 | Last month nearly two point seven million people were on the dole . |
| 5 | No , you said you were on the dole ! |
| 6 | And then that one conservative who did go and do it , he swapped places with people who were on the dole , and he went and lived up in Newcastle . |
| 7 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 8 | I was on the dole at the time , so the amount seemed enormous . |
| 9 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 10 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 12 | When her man was on the dole . |
| 13 | Andrew was on the dole and I was doing two part-time jobs . |
| 14 | In interviews though , I said I was on the dole because it was very trendy at the time to be on the dole as far as the music press was concerned . |
| 15 | I was on the dole then , getting £5.50 a week and the rent was £2.50 . |
| 16 | By then I was on the dole . |
| 17 | When he was on the dole they lived on £114 a fortnight . |
| 18 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 19 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 20 | I was on the dole in Sheffield once and I swore I 'd sweep streets rather than going back . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Me Aunty Linda 's not working either , like she did n't need the money but I mean he was on the dole for years me Uncle Ron . |
| 23 | He was like , he was on the dole for years man , he was lucky to get that but I mean he used to . |