Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 2 | Even in very large organizations one finds that the original conceptual activities were carried out initially on the drawing board , advancing to cardboard models to verify their ideas . |
| 3 | I liked Brahms 's youthful B major Trio for its wholly natural flow — as if the players were carried along willy-nilly on the music 's own tide . |
| 4 | It was not as if they were going out alone on the High Veld . |
| 5 | These badges were handed out only on a nurse 's last day in the hospital , after she had taken State and Hospital Finals and accumulated a sheaf of satisfactory ward reports . |
| 6 | The Daily Express was by this time in pole position , but the Mail and Today were coming up fast on the inside . |
| 7 | ‘ Three lines of three figures were marked out there on the shell , as plain as could be seen , the Yin numbers in the corners , the Yang numbers in the centre , and each line — horizontal , vertical and diagonal — adding up to fifteen . |
| 8 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |