Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years ago there were over two hundred kidnappings there — the pickings were rich along the Costa Smeralda for those who were sticking it out on the hills above — but last year there were only three , and one of those a complete failure . |
| 2 | Here he is now , cast in cement , somewhat undersized Gibson slung around him , coloured in garish as the statue , showing dully familiar images — Bob , Bunny and Peter in Wailing Wailers suits , Bob at the Peace Concert in 1978 , linking the hands of opposing politicians whose supporters were shooting it out on the streets . |
| 3 | He was basing it only on a recent knowledge of Trueman and the belief that his committee colleagues are capable of doing whatever it takes to preserve their ill-gotten privileges . ’ |
| 4 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 5 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 6 | ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 8 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 9 | I always keep a bottle in my desk drawer , but this character was putting it away on an industrial scale . |