Example sentences of "it [was/were] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Alternative Service Book was threatening the absolutism of the Book of Common Prayer a few years ago , the Book of Common Prayer was being spoken of as if it were on a par with Holy Writ . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought it was on a couple of weeks ago oh no it was the whatsit millionaire was n't it ? |
| 3 | It was on a Sunday in July , 1849 , that Charley first introduced his pal Ben to his loved one . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew it was on a knife-edge but this is the right outcome , I am absolutely sure of that . ’ |
| 5 | It was on a sigh that Aggie replied , ‘ No , love , I 'm not afraid of getting splinters . |
| 6 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 7 | It was on a descent pattern . |
| 8 | You want to be able at any time to get into the box , perhaps to change the battery , and you want to be able to flip the lid ( the field ) back as though it was on a hinge in order to do this . |
| 9 | You said it was on a road . |
| 10 | . If it was on a P D P Eleven then the addressing would only be a matter of si sixteen bit as well . |
| 11 | ‘ It was on a bearing of 280 degrees and was already west of the Falklands , so I 'm sorry but I can not see how you can say it was not sailing away from the Falklands when it was sunk . ’ |
| 12 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 13 | When the final announcement came yesterday , it was on a winter 's day as cold and dull as their marriage had become . |
| 14 | I think it was on a truck . |
| 15 | It was on a level with Arnold 's 67 at Troon . |
| 16 | Well that we had a favourite place for that , that was at the corner of Road and Road by the chapel , the Chapel , and because it was on a hill , slope on to . |
| 17 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 18 | Arnold put his ball in the greenside bunker , and even though it was on a slope the wind had blown the sand over it . |
| 19 | It was on a par with the rest of their good fortune that night — save the missing of Balliol himself — for nothing could more assist their project than to drive hosts of panic-stricken and riderless horses before them through the sleeping camp . |
| 20 | It was on a half-pasted-up Foyer Display on his desk at the theatre — Your Front-of-House Man , Christopher Tomms — Dad must have raged at everyone to find it , but he never thought to ask me . |
| 21 | It was on a Tuesday that it happened . |
| 22 | it was on a car park at Heathrow Airport |
| 23 | Well I was trying to draw your attention , right she had pieces of pink paper right that was mi , and on the desk , on our side and on it it had a fe , erm it was she 'd she had received some er goods or something like that there , it was on a piece of pink paper and the signature on it was Houston ! |
| 24 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 25 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 26 | So we went , it was on a Friday afternoon I think , in June . |
| 27 | Yeah , erm you know my mate Lorraine , her sister used to work in there part time and it was on a Friday |
| 28 | it was on a Friday , it was her day off , she got called in at about three o'clock and they told her then , it was two weeks ago now |
| 29 | Now it is free , and very agreeable it was on a spring morning to walk through its coppices and gardens of oak and maple , white roses and birches and every kind of shrub . |
| 30 | When I did finally traverse the hills it was on a spring day of constantly changing conditions , all of them chilly . |