Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on the green for five shots , and Mr Lu was on the side of the green for two . |
| 2 | Fire-fighters were on the scene for more than three hours after the call at 12.47pm . |
| 3 | Crews were on the scene for almost two hours . |
| 4 | They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence . |
| 5 | ‘ We were on the phone for an hour we had some pretty special memories and I just want to thank The Northern ‘ . |
| 6 | Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl ! |
| 7 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 8 | Not if you were on the look-out for adventure . ’ |
| 9 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 10 | When you were on the watch for the weekend , did you used to get extra payment for that ? |
| 11 | A small number of naturalists , including the young Thomas Henry Huxley ( 1825–95 ) , were on the lookout for a new initiative in this area . |
| 12 | Gloucester missed some chances but they were never in with a shout … they were on the retreat for most of the game as Bath piled forward … |
| 13 | For days afterwards anxiety and guilt were on the table for lunch and self-contempt at my own cowardice in avoiding him provided supper . |
| 14 | And because discs were on the market for a longer time , and attracted more investment , there are a correspondingly large number of ‘ freaks ’ around . |
| 15 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |
| 16 | Rutherford 's earliest research at the Cavendish was on a detector for electromagnetic waves , an essential feature of which was a small coil containing a tiny bundle of magnetised iron wire . |
| 17 | Montgomery 's air of massive restraint was on a par for provocation with his kindly tolerance . |
| 18 | on er er , er and had erm I was on an antibiotic for a , week or so . |
| 19 | ‘ I was on the dole for three months and then got a job . |
| 20 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been working for 19 months and was on the dole for five years before that , ’ he said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was like , he was on the dole for years man , he was lucky to get that but I mean he used to . |
| 26 | By the end of the decade , new electrification projects meant the writing was on the wall for the surviving English Electric-engined Class 205 and 207 units . |
| 27 | Down 15–6 at half-time after 40 minutes with a strong breeze at their backs , the writing was on the wall for the Irish . |
| 28 | The writing was on the wall for Charles in June 1990 when he broke his arm in two places after a fall from his polo pony . |
| 29 | The writing was on the wall for the old system : it was doubtful whether the established constitution could hold . |
| 30 | The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger . |