Example sentences of "the [noun pl] were [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time-pips were sounding on the line , and he added quickly , ‘ Do you want to give me your number ? |
| 2 | I think it was probably the other day because erm the wa the ducks were swimming on the road at er six o'clock just on the road near the baths |
| 3 | The cases were laid on the ground . |
| 4 | The coals were selected on the basis of microscopic analysis of the homogenised ground coals to minimise variations in organic facies . |
| 5 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 6 | The cylinders were left on the line betweenWroughton and Wootton Bassett , immediately opposite a council-run gypsy site . |
| 7 | The cakes and the presents were put on the table , then the children hid in the other room when they heard Perks coming home from work . |
| 8 | Who knows , if the Gauguins were left on the island one day they might be worth — ’ I drew a breath — ‘ twenty or even thirty thousand each ? ’ |
| 9 | It is not uncommon to find the spaces still blank in early books , the scribe not having arrived before the books were put on the market . |
| 10 | The books were lying on the bed , where he had left them . |
| 11 | Some seals are cylindrical , and in the earliest period , from 2500 BC onwards , the designs were carved on the flat end , not on the curve as in Syrian and Mesopotamian seals . |
| 12 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 13 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 14 | The Sabbath laws of the Jews were based on the story of creation in Genesis . |
| 15 | It makes me want to roll up my sleeves , ’ McQuaid said in praise and plain enjoyment at the prospect of it as the plates were put on the table . |
| 16 | As all the carcinomas were located on the right side of the colon , except the rectal carcinoma , which was found by rigid sigmoidoscopy , barium enema would seem to be an appropriate initial method of investigation . |
| 17 | The following morning , a peerless sunny Sunday , incredibly the larks were singing on the Mort Homme and it seemed quite impossible that there could be an attack that day Suddenly , a single shell landed , and the tornado descended . |
| 18 | Although the eugenic risk ( that the child of an incestuous relationship between father — daughter or brother — sister will have congenital defects ) was known at the time and was probably a factor , most of the arguments of the reformers were based on the protection of children from sexual exploitation . |
| 19 | But the parents were stranded on the lift on chairs just behind the accident scene for half an hour before they were rescued . |
| 20 | But above all , the Conservatives were impaled on the difficulties of saying why , since they had run the country for 13 years , they had not taken certain actions sooner . |
| 21 | Sir Patrick said compensation was paid in 123 cases , but only 27 of the settlements were made on the basis of police assault . |
| 22 | In the case of the Boeing 707/300–400 series aircraft the stabilisers were certified on the basis of a fail-safe structure , but on the earlier versions of the ( smaller ) Boeing 707/100 series in which there were only two , instead of three , chords ( Boeing nomenclature ) in the stabiliser rear spar , fatigue testing produced cracks in the rear spar upper chord rear flange ( as opposed to the forward flange in the accident aircraft ) after 240 000 simulated flights . |
| 23 | First , it is possible that the volatiles were borne on the small bodies from which the planets accreted . |
| 24 | The House of Lords said that punctual payment required payment on the Friday , if the banks were closed on the Saturday and Sunday , and that the owners could not be said to have waived the breach simply because their bank had accepted the payment order . |
| 25 | ( The reforms were based on the principles discussed in Chapter 5 , pages 80–1 . ) |
| 26 | The apples were ripening on the trees in the garden . |
| 27 | The pamphlets were produced on the school duplicating machine . |
| 28 | The hangings were conducted on the anniversary of the 1979 storming by Iranian students of the US embassy in Tehran [ see p. 30150 ] , and were accompanied by an anti-US demonstration in the capital which was addressed by Mohtashemi . |
| 29 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 30 | The Pages were waiting on the table . |