Example sentences of "when they [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were on holiday from school , she and Francis used to came to Billy 's cottage and sit in the kitchen , drinking tea . |
| 2 | Er I met them in when they were on holiday and that 's how I got in . |
| 3 | And during the war you see , we had queues for these things , when they were on ration . |
| 4 | All bands smiled when they were on TV then . |
| 5 | For example , in the context of complex and time-consuming workloads team members were beginning to feel that when on duty at night or at weekends ( what is called out-of-hours work ) they were as busy as when they were on duty between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m . |
| 6 | ‘ I was thinking if we could stop his cows from getting out of a field or save his hayricks when they were on fire , ’ said Heather , who loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures , with herself as the heroine . |
| 7 | And as we quit the singer 's house , I remember the words that Bonnie Raitt said to John Lee when they were on stage earlier this year in nearby Sweetwater . |
| 8 | but erm he was on about certain aspects that he picked up from her , but having been in gypsy caravans round here , as when they were on Line Brook you see we were always at Line Brook for one reason or another |