Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on a beach just up from Frinton at the time , and when Oliver heard Gill 's remark he went into one of his spiels . |
| 2 | do n't know who 's on this week , the Baron Knights were on a fortnight ago were n't they ? |
| 3 | They were on a slope too . |
| 4 | if , if you were on a street then , if you were a burglar and there 's a house there with a burglar alarm on |
| 5 | PCs Bill Cotton and Ken McDonnell were on the scene just minutes after a woman hurled the toddler into the river . |
| 6 | No , we did n't see it , but we were on the scene soon afterwards . |
| 7 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 8 | ‘ Police were on the scene very quickly , but he had already cycled away . |
| 9 | ‘ Police were on the scene very quickly , but he had already cycled away . |
| 10 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 11 | Mm , I thought they were on the way here , I saw loads of for sale signs but I did n't see any new ones |
| 12 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 13 | The Greeks spent several centuries under the heel of the Ottoman empire , which allowed them no form of self-government except in church matters ( about which the Turks were on the whole remarkably liberal ) . |
| 14 | CD68 + macrophages were on the whole slightly more numerous than L1 + granulocytes in formalin fixed tissue ( Table III ) . |
| 15 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 16 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 17 | They were on the road again just before four , when the fierce pin-point sun had lost some of its bite . |
| 18 | They went all the way by car and she does n't think they were on the road very long . |
| 19 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 20 | It 's like all the , you know , the office , and they said all of them were on the opening today , all , all the stores . |
| 21 | The concert required considerable stamina from both players , as they were on the platform virtually throughout the concert , with Craig alternating between the organ and harpsichord continuo parts and Paul playing orchestral parts when he was not playing solo . |
| 22 | And the National Guard were on the case now . |
| 23 | George I and George II were Germans by birth and upbringing , and were on the throne simply because all the heirs with better hereditary claims were disqualified by being Roman Catholics . |
| 24 | The old , it appeared , were on the attack everywhere ; why , even pirate radio was being driven out of the North Sea . |
| 25 | ‘ So … if the kitchen bag had just been changed and the photos were on the top outside , it can only mean he threw out the photos in the last couple of days . ’ |
| 26 | The shares were on the slide again yesterday , down 7p at 339p . |
| 27 | A hurried tea and they were on the move again . |
| 28 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 29 | ‘ You were on the Mail then , were n't you , Bill ? |
| 30 | The touch judges ' flags were on the pitch more often than off it in a game I saw recently here ( in Eastern Province , South Africa ) . |