Example sentences of "[adv] they [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trip was mercifully brief , little more than an hour , and soon they were standing on the tarmac at Ciampino Airport . |
| 2 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 3 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 4 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
| 5 | These were the only elements on the council between which there is any contemporary suggestion of hostility and it is thus significant how evenly they were balanced on the commissions . |
| 6 | Still , you see if they 're coming from somewhere like Southampton or wherever they might have come , maybe they were delayed on the journey and er So we went and had our half hour lunch . |
| 7 | At least they were working on the complex that day , at least the civilian contractors had been able to bribe their private work force to cross the picket lines . |
| 8 | I can stay in there they was sitting on the bleeding ! |
| 9 | And yet they were founded on the theories and practices worked out by UNESCO ‘ experts ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It got to the point where they were jumping on the bonnet and it would have been a matter of time before they ran over my roof . ’ |