Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it were on past Worksop . |
| 2 | Do you remember how you were on to me to write to him ? |
| 3 | ‘ How 's that scheme of yours coming on ? ’ you might ask him and he would reply with just a little too much nonchalance to sound natural : ‘ Oh , I had to give it up ; we had good reason for thinking that the goons were on to it . ’ |
| 4 | The police thought they were on to something when , following an anonymous ‘ phone call , they went to a butcher 's shop . |
| 5 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 6 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 7 | Clearly these insects were on to something . |
| 8 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 9 | Now they were on to stones . |
| 10 | This conclusion was the result of misinterpretation of data , presumably prompted by the scientists ' preconceived idea that they were on to something very important . |
| 11 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 12 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 13 | No , the Pigs were on to something about some holiday fund that disappeared — some scheme for sending kids in Homes on a holiday that people in a pub had contributed to — fraud , they called it . |
| 14 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 15 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 16 | We were on to Dead Lib again . |
| 17 | ‘ They were on to it quickly . |
| 18 | They would know they were on to something . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately for him , almost all the staff were on to him . |
| 20 | Burroughs and Gysin practised their own form of sorcery using tape recorders , with results impressive enough to convince them they were on to something . |
| 21 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 22 | Er when the election , local elections were on of course , er er er i we were n not quite so friendly to each other , because er each had got candidates er contesting for the er for the same er for the one er particular seat . |
| 23 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 24 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 25 | I thought we were on for charades . |
| 26 | All the families were on for except the three weeks holiday during the year they were marooned on these islands all the time . |
| 27 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 28 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 29 | Susan Hampshire herself was invited to become a governor , and who knows , might have accepted , had she been able to suss out what we were on about . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've had some success already — turned away more than a dozen chaps , we did , once they understood what we were on about . |