Example sentences of "it [was/were] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were on windowsill in corner . |
| 2 | It was on idiocies like this that the frail sisterhood thrived . |
| 3 | ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then . |
| 4 | It was on Road ? |
| 5 | Ironically , it was on BBC . |
| 6 | Oh I did n't realize it was on Japan . |
| 7 | It was on ten-past five till seven , and it 's always , like , about |
| 8 | It was on Sunday that the scenes turned ugly . |
| 9 | It was on Sunday October 29 , 1989 that many people heard the name , The Wedding Present , for the first time . |
| 10 | He recalled that it was on tour in South Africa that they were christened the Pumas . |
| 11 | As a good wife , Annette would have blamed it whatever it was on Maxim . |
| 12 | It was on edge . |
| 13 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 14 | Based as it was on principles of race , with the figure of the Jew as the focal point of all hatred , and with the Führer as its ideological and organizational fulcrum , the Nazi Movement needed no regular orders or directions from Hitler to step up the pace of anti Jewish actions and discrimination , pushing the government and the State bureaucracy into action , and always therefore increasing the radicalizing momentum of racial policy . |
| 15 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 16 | But how , the misunderstanding goes , can a market be efficient when on October 19th 1987 the New York stockmarket was suddenly and inexplicably worth 23% less than it was on October 16th ? |
| 17 | So it was on look for it later , so I traced it up and it was Mars . |
| 18 | It was on September 9 that a soldier on foot patrol along the Annadale Embankment pulled a sack from the River Lagan . |
| 19 | And no one dare admit that it was on floor cos she 'd think they 'd put it there . |
| 20 | On Monday evenings , at the end of wash-day , which I thought when small was always the worst day of the week , this would be rolled ( it was on castors ) to the centre of the room . |
| 21 | ‘ I was told it was on deck five . ’ |
| 22 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 23 | Yes it was on pause ! |
| 24 | And although Ross had insisted on regularly visiting his brother and sister-in-law in hospital , it was on Laura 's own slim shoulders that most of the daily problems had fallen . |
| 25 | Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Siena , both of whom ‘ indulged ’ in rigorous self-discipline ( and indeed it was on Catherine of Siena that Rose of Lima modelled her own life style ) , are none the less deeply respected . |
| 26 | It was on March 7 that a helicopter carrying Tanay , accompanied by his family and a number of Afghan generals , landed near the Pakistan border town of Peshawar . |
| 27 | It was on top of a white wave . |
| 28 | Then the second body — in time , that is ; the one found first because it was on top — had also been strangled , and possibly sexually assaulted . |
| 29 | Di , Di did n't have but the one but he come up , he said said he wants a spirit level and he wants a tape measure he 'd got the spirit level he said I ca n't find the tape measure he said , said it was on top of the bag . |
| 30 | And the tape measure 's that size and it was on top of the bag . |