Example sentences of "[was/were] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 2 | ‘ Dash it all , ’ she said , ‘ Lord Woodleigh spoke very sharply to the fellow when we were on the boat . |
| 3 | And without more ado the two officers fastened their clips about their ankles , wheeled out with velocipedes and were on their way . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a pity you did n't run into her , Freddy , on your way to the Gents — I presume you were on your way to the Gents . |
| 5 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 6 | Hope Steuart had leaned two loaded muskets against the doorjambs ; he turned to pick one up but the Duke 's two sons were on him , twisting his arms behind him . |
| 7 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 8 | The porcelain horse , the cactus , the blue bowl and the drinks were on the shelves . |
| 9 | Stones spurted from the horses ' hooves and then they were on a wide stretch of sand , galloping full speed , flying in the face of the wind ; the sea , the sky , the cliffs streamed past Sara 's stinging cheeks . |
| 10 | Though when we were on our own he found some of them quite funny . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You were on your own , Maggie , ’ said Caroline . |
| 12 | I made no secret of this when me and my ex were on good terms . |
| 13 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 14 | Here we were on swings in small parks , our hair that had been blonded by the African sun now turning dark , as if another person was emerging , slowly , day by day , and with it our accents changed too , so that we spoke in multiple mangled voices as we moved endlessly , six times , seven times , eight , nine times through different versions of Englishness . |
| 15 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 16 | The tables were on a fixed budget and should take a fortnight . |
| 17 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 18 | I was a stocky baby with good bone , but perhaps my ears were on the large side — but then so were Clark Gable 's and he did n't do so bad . |
| 19 | His espousal of Blast closed to him just those doors that were on the point of opening ; and twenty years later , when he desperately wanted such access to the power-wielding centres of society , he was condemned to the world of fantasy in which he thought he could influence United States policy by way of such unlikely intermediaries as Senators Borah and Bankhead , and Italian policy by way of Ubaldo degli Uberti . |
| 20 | The imprisoned Mr Mandela has met in recent months more than a dozen of the chieftains and assorted dignitaries — his Xhosa wife , Winnie , among them - who were on the podium . |
| 21 | While we were on the beach below another tourist tried to climb up to the ruin ; but a flock of dive-bombing gulls , screaming histrionically , drove him off . |
| 22 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 23 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 24 | Republic of Ireland .. 3 Northern Ireland ..... 0 THE celebrations were on the point of becoming a full-blown ceilidh when the score was corrected : Spain had not won 2-1 in Budapest , but the Hungarians had equalised eight minutes from time , and a bizarre set of circumstances could yet deny the Republic their first appearance in the World Cup finals . |
| 25 | LWT revealed the details of a similar scheme yesterday and also let slip that its advertising revenue and market share were on the slide . |
| 26 | Kurt Hager , the 77-year-old chief party ideologue who first indicated changes were on the way , insisted in Moscow yesterday : ‘ The leadership is united and will remain so , even though people keep on trying to invent disputes . ’ |
| 27 | Britain 's Dale Reid and Debby Dowling were on 69 together with Leigh Mills , another American . |
| 28 | The crash happened as Ontong , a Glamorgan player for 15 seasons , and Steve Barwick , his team-mate , were on the way to a Championship game in Essex 14 months ago . |
| 29 | I 've heard that you and her were more than friendly when you were on the staff at the C.B.T.C. ’ |
| 30 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |