Example sentences of "[was/were] on the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if they did n't get up when the Night Sister switched the lights on , they were on the Matron 's mat , and they lost that hour . |
| 2 | Tristan Garel-Jones and Alan Howarth were on the Chairman 's staff at Central Office . |
| 3 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |
| 4 | We were on the King 's Road . |
| 5 | She glanced around with an innocent expression on her face , but all eyes were on the Doctor 's antics . |
| 6 | No I do n't think so , I think there 's a difference because the other excesses were on the peasants ' part now it 's okay whatever the peasants did , you know , it 's not terrible it 's , it 's fine to let the peasants do that , and also erm into the war period the peasants are gon na but must n't do it , this time it 's like okay , now we 're the party that 's saying let's go as far as we can . |
| 7 | The appellants , suppliers of petrol to garage owners , entered into two agreements with the respondents in relation to two garages , M and C. The agreements were on the appellants ' standard forms . |
| 8 | Williams team management said they were on the protestors ' side . |
| 9 | Ethics was on the conventioneer 's minds , as well . |
| 10 | The referee was on the Lions ' side in the first half , before finding that their style did not suit him . |
| 11 | Her mind was on the gardener 's boy , |
| 12 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 13 | All over the city church bells tolled and the locals hurried to Mass , while groups of tourists crocodiled after their guides , already appearing hot and tired and largely indifferent , snapping innumerable pictures simply because Venice was on the day 's agenda . |
| 14 | Until recently what was on the child 's school record and whether parent or child could see it was a vexed question . |
| 15 | It was on the King 's suggestion to MacDonald that the Cabinet considered including in the Speech from the Throne in October 1930 a plea to ‘ all sections of parliament ’ to ‘ unite ’ in treating unemployment ‘ on national as distinct from party lines ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 17 | They showed , that was on the children 's thing where they do the toys . |
| 18 | The first defendant learnt of this but also became aware that no copy of his report had been sent to the tribunal or was on the plaintiff 's file at the hospital . |
| 19 | According to a book by Sunday Times journalists , an SAS soldier posed as the ex-UDR man after security forces learned he was on the IRA 's hit list . |
| 20 | The received military wisdom on prisoners was that time was on the captor 's side . |
| 21 | If I was on the tiger 's side — running the other mob — I 'd be in no hurry to pounce . |
| 22 | Gino Soccio 's ‘ The Visitors ’ was on the DJ 's decks . |
| 23 | In five of the six cases the main focus of the headline was on the woman 's marital status : Church wife 's boy lover ; Young wife 's sexy games ; Sex in Jacuzzi for wife and lover , aged 12 ; A ‘ sex mad ’ wife 's schoolboy lovers ; A wife 's ten boy lovers . |
| 24 | She reached the buffer and rolled out from underneath the freight car , safe in the knowledge she was on the sniper 's blindspot . |
| 25 | While the Formalists had treated them as objective features inherent in literature itself , Richards 's emphasis was on the reader 's response to literature and on the evaluation of this response . |
| 26 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 27 | His name was on the voters ' list as occupying Moat Hall , the small mansion Burden had found deserted , but plainly he had left it months before . |
| 28 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 29 | It was moreover ‘ a proprietor that never died and never wasted ’ , so that property was on the people 's side . |