Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter two were on a nine-man organising committee along with Philip Tomalin , who , as cricket chairman of the French Sports Federation and captain of the SAC , had a major role in setting up the game . |
| 2 | In fact they were on a bridge hanging innocently above two feet of pleasant , placid water , that on this balmy summer afternoon looked inviting enough to jump into anyway . |
| 3 | Naturally we had to obtain Doctor Agrippa 's permission to leave but , within the hour , we were on a barge taking us upriver . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not very good , I 'm afraid , ’ he said when they were on the floor waiting for the band to strike up . |
| 5 | Because the clergy were on the whole ministering to the poor , many of them could not avoid being caught up in the unrest , violence and fear . |
| 6 | She said the legs of both players tangled , and then both players were on the turf kicking out at each . |
| 7 | They brought out large packs of cigarettes — then rationed — and shared them out among the men who were on the road watching . |
| 8 | Now to take you back to when you were on the committee representing what kind of complaints did you have to get there ? |
| 9 | Two of the Valiant 's crew , posing as holiday makers , were on the beach studying vessels at closer range . |
| 10 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 11 | Forty-nine Britons on an excursion from Cyprus were on the bus going through an underpass when a man dropped a nail bomb from above . |
| 12 | The first two were traffic cops and they were on the street cruising for the house number , no sirens out of deference to the ratepayers , within five minutes . |
| 13 | Two sailors were on the foredeck manning the cannon . |
| 14 | Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) . |
| 15 | We began our discussion of the policy-making process by considering the roles of parties and pressure groups as if they were on the outside looking in , so to speak . |
| 16 | One of Mr Hallam 's team mates , William Morris , of Corwen Close , Ford Estate , Wirral , said that both players were on the ground kicking out at each other . |
| 17 | Certainly , it surpassed in bulk and cost anything yet seen in Romania and was on a scale approaching Imelda Marcos 's spendthrift acquisitions . |
| 18 | The young gunman was on a truck fleeing the scene of a shoot-out with marines in Mogadishu . |
| 19 | ‘ I was on a visit doing some coaching when I was told the President and Secretary of State wanted to see me . |
| 20 | He was on a train taking him home from a visit to his sister in Vienna . |
| 21 | 1914 and 1953 were aeons apart ; 1914 was on a planet circling one of those furthest faintest stars . |
| 22 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 23 | Going past the stands for the first time , the Unwins ' Upper Gumtree still showed in front but with Premiere almost alongside ; pampering was on the inside tugging his jockey 's arms out . |
| 24 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 25 | It was on the floor squeaking gently . |
| 26 | That time my father was on the deck giving a dramatic blow by blow account of Dunkirk , which was overheard by a family from Stoke-on-Trent who promptly dived for their life jackets . |
| 27 | Within hours of the news Diana was on the telephone trying to comfort her heartbroken friend , married to former Royal Navy lieutenant James Lonsdale , 34 . |
| 28 | British No. 1 Jo Durie was on the road coaching young prospects in Scotland and the North of England . |
| 29 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 30 | But the most important point was that the emphasis in the syllabus was on the skills relating to the communication of information rather than retrieval from information sources . |