Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever happened to you , you were on a charge if you were n't at the point that the sergeant expected you . |
| 2 | But erm you know when we were on the strike if these lads would n't have gone back , there was couple of scabs went back into the quarry . |
| 3 | We were on the coach until about one pm the next day . |
| 4 | They were on the till when I was up there this morning and I said you are you were working there |
| 5 | All eyes were on the clock as the hands dragged themselves , with agonising slowness towards noon and time to leave for the airfield . |
| 6 | Ace were on the bill as well . |
| 7 | Other stars were on the isle when the storm — which killed four people with gusts of 175mph — struck as they filmed Steven Spielberg 's latest thriller . |
| 8 | It is understood that unarmed policemen accompanied the returning Vietnamese , and that two very senior government officials were on the plane when it landed in the Vietnamese capital , Hanoi . |
| 9 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 10 | He was on a motorcycle when arrested by plain clothes police . |
| 11 | it was based on the figures that the West Yorkshire authorities submitted to the Secretary of State , which was on a policy as I understand it , of containing as much of their population they as as they were possible to . |
| 12 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 13 | In Gladstone Williams the defendant was on a bus when he witnessed what lie believed to be an attack by a large man on another , smaller youth . |
| 14 | Aye that was Well that that was on the platform when I got me face burnt and me left hand , which I think was burnt trying to protect me me head or face at the time . |
| 15 | Take Denise , for instance , who had told her boyfriend she was on the Pill when she was n't : |
| 16 | She was on the pill as well but she |
| 17 | Mr Nujoma himself was on the border when the incursions began and is suspected of having ordered his men to move south . |
| 18 | Harlequin captain Winterbottom was on the ball when he said that the cup suited them best in so many ways . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's tough , but the writing was on the wall once I was 12th man . |
| 21 | Formal training was the next step , although the writing was on the wall when one class had a notice displaying ‘ No Basset Hounds ’ ! |
| 22 | And my grandfather was on the jury when , Mary was hanged , was you ken convicted . |
| 23 | All the managers knew that Karen was on the Committee because she always had a notebook in her hand . |
| 24 | The jury was told that Mr Johnson was on the door when the four arrived at his party at about three am . |
| 25 | She was on the run as soon as she won the lead role in Bitter Harvest — back to her pop star husband Jim Kerr and two-month-old son James . |
| 26 | The focus was on the child as listener , since a classificatory scheme was available for this purpose — the system of clarification requests developed by Garvey ( 1979 ) . |
| 27 | He then asked to speak to me , but I was on the phone so he rang back five minutes later . |
| 28 | Anyway , erm Raymond was on the phone because he was tal and I was saying to Jim tell him I do n't want him to come if the ra if the road 's cut off to Blythe I do n't want him to get stuck , I mean , he 's got a wife |
| 29 | He was on the water when I made the speech and the Liberals did not know what to say . |
| 30 | This was the first hard evidence that a change in the advanced courses was on the way although , ever since the development at National Certificate level , it had been assumed that a major change in the advanced level would follow in due course . |