Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on [art] way " in BNC.

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1 My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way .
2 This was long before all things that girls wear could be studied and were exhibited on the way up the escalator at Piccadilly Underground .
3 For some reason , which I can not recall , bombs were jettisoned on the way home — we landed back at base after a seven hour 30 minute flight .
4 Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way .
5 Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station .
6 One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles .
7 And that was all that was said on the way home .
8 In the early days , SCOTVEC and the unions discussed their difference of views on this issue and an agreement was reached on the way in which the validation criteria would be interpreted .
9 Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned .
10 His walk was very brisk and he always carried a preoccupied expression as if his mind was centred on the way the next work of art might be tackled .
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