Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 2 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 3 | That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education . |
| 4 | The people that were left behind such as the section leaders — the gunnery leader , flight engineer leader , navigation leader and one or two people that were not on the battle order for that night , would meet these people and speak to them . |
| 5 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 6 | But then terrific top-end power and tarmac-scorching standing starts were not on the design team 's agenda . |
| 7 | The early starters were already on the practice ground and the putting green . |
| 8 | But Graham Gooch 's team were quickly on the back foot in the first round of the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 9 | They were off on a collision course with the beaten snow , their equipment and one another . |
| 10 | Brown and his team were still on the road south . |
| 11 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |
| 12 | She had gone with Jim when they were both on the Keith farm at East Gore on the Mataura River . |
| 13 | And finally at Filbert Street , Leicester were also on the comeback trail , they came from two nil down at home to Middlesbrough to eventually win four three . |
| 14 | It may be doubted whether these sources were often on the credit side as long as the papacy had to pay out considerable sums to consolidate its position and to enter into compacts and agreements with some of the towns : but a list of revenues and rents from Spoleto in 1198 is not negligible . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union had beaten Romania this autumn but were often on the back foot against players mainly culled from junior clubs . |
| 16 | They were out on the villa forecourt and Guido was loading the car , the same racy-looking open-top red Alfa Romeo that he had brought her to the villa in on the day of her arrival . |
| 17 | The shoes were back on the desk top . |
| 18 | We were then on the coast path , near an old abandoned aerodrome and could see ahead in the distance Wooltack Point near a cluster of islands . |
| 19 | The ‘ abolitionists ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 770 ) were therefore on a collision course with the Long March veterans . |
| 20 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 21 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 22 | ‘ And you think Parks was in on the Livesey case too ? ’ |
| 23 | I 've got a lot of interesting stuff-after all , I was in on the ground floor . |
| 24 | I was only on the waiting list anyway and it was n't very likely that four people would drop out . |
| 25 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 26 | One day , a year later , I was over on the west side of the island . |
| 27 | Eric was away on a school cruise , so there would only be me and her . |
| 28 | They said the part was not on the Boeing checklist , even though it has been widely blamed for the crash , which killed at least 43 people . |
| 29 | Peggy was a little surprised to find that 48 , Beaconsfield Avenue was not on the council estate but was one of a terrace of small houses , with front iron-railed , enclosed gardens and all neatly kept . |
| 30 | His name was not on the passenger list . |