Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 2 | Even in extruded mesenchyme , they were detected only on the posterior side of the extrusion ( Fig. 2 g , and data not shown ) . |
| 3 | That 's where they were roosting overnight on the trees . |
| 4 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 5 | In other words , when the New Ireland Forum was being assured by Bishop Daly of the intention of the Roman catholic church in Ireland to support full civil and religious rights for Northern Ireland protestants , the bishops were effectively reserving to themselves , as a body of luminaries with a direct access to the inner structures of social reality , the right to declare what actually constituted a civil and religious liberty or right and they were doing so on the grounds of what they considered good for society . |
| 6 | While they were working outside on the roof , Chola was inside sweeping down the walls and ceiling , the beams and rafters . |
| 7 | They were used initially on the new ten-minute Squires Gate and Fleetwood service which required ten cars , and the remainder used as Fleetwood specials . |
| 8 | They were sitting outside on the verandah . |
| 9 | They were sitting again on the terrace at the Continental . |
| 10 | They were sitting together on the grass of Hartshorn Park , some distance away from a gravel path where tourists wandered up and down , pointing towards the follies and monuments around them . |
| 11 | On the day , they were brought ashore on the Shirley and driven to the house . |
| 12 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 13 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |