Example sentences of "[coord] they [was/were] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 2 | And they were situated on the dock ? |
| 3 | And they were sitting on the only two chairs at the table . |
| 4 | Then reality started to move so fast that by the time he caught up it was all over and they were parked on the hard shoulder . |
| 5 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 6 | Post-Darwinian geologists had assigned vast tracts of time for the operations of forces still believed by us to have shaped the Earth ; but they were challenged on the grounds that thermodynamics could demonstrate that the Sun and the Earth could not be much more than fifty million years old . |
| 7 | But they were rebuffed on the grounds that the society was not concerned with clinical research . |
| 8 | The Corporation ignored this scheme and the company did not display the numbers on the cars , but they were shown on the folder maps issued by the three companies from 1916 . |