Example sentences of "was on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to have Connolly 's support and was on the way to becoming thoroughly nationalist and republican under Connolly 's influence . |
| 2 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 3 | ‘ 'T WAS on the Isle of Capreee that I found her … ’ |
| 4 | Hers was on the floor by the bedside table — she 'd probably knocked it off when she had a glass of water , or when she took the veronal . ’ |
| 5 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 6 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 7 | The boot was on the other foot then , was n't it ? |
| 8 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 9 | One or your down-fine hairs was on the pillow : I picked it up like gold-dust-sweet relic ! |
| 10 | And now that Donald 's name was on the militia list , the thought of being parted obsessed them and they made love as though each time was the last time . |
| 11 | The television was on the drinks table . |
| 12 | Alan was on the screen ; there were streaks of blood on his face , his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders . |
| 13 | American football was on the screen . |
| 14 | Sorry was on the tip of her tongue when a thought struck her with such force she lay back to fathom its meaning . |
| 15 | By the end of the decade , new electrification projects meant the writing was on the wall for the surviving English Electric-engined Class 205 and 207 units . |
| 16 | Two hopping abseils later — I 'm an expert at them now — and I was on the snow . |
| 17 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 18 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |
| 19 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 20 | MB GROUP , the old Metal Box company , refused to confirm yesterday that it was on the verge of a £300m-plus bid for Caradon , the building products group . |
| 21 | A convicted murderer was on the run last night . |
| 22 | As Bowen admitted , it had been ‘ like the Alamo ’ for Norwich and bastions was on the lips of every Millwall supporter as they headed home complaining of an iniquitous defeat , their moans contrasting the broadcasted cries of consummation . |
| 23 | The onus therefore was on the defendants . |
| 24 | Up to his last days , he regularly walked his dogs , and was on the point of doing so on his usual route from his home — the oldest lived-in wooden house in London , built in 1483 — when he had his fatal fall . |
| 25 | He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards . |
| 26 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 27 | A month or two ago I was on the phone to the Baltic , to obtain some bloodcurdlingly seditious statement from the local nationalists . |
| 28 | For it was on the night he was betrayed that he took bread and broke it and said : ‘ This is my body for you ’ . |
| 29 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 30 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |