Example sentences of "[pron] were on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 2 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 3 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 4 | All they told me was that if I were on the public payroll I 'd take a ride out to Westminster Drive and have a long talk with Mrs. Laura Channing . |
| 5 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |
| 6 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 7 | The work had dropped off yeah , and then I were on the , on the labour for a short time and erm then I got a job next door to where I lived , straight next door . |
| 8 | The police were called , after which Bradley started to tear up the paper bags which were on the counter . |
| 9 | Ignoring the whole question of invisibility , which is particularly oppressive to working-class lesbians and gays , she nonetheless raised matters which were on the minds of many other heterosexual politicians . |
| 10 | The OCU also operated the T.4s which were on the strength of the flying squadrons so that the actual complement was almost double this meagre total . |
| 11 | Problems arise when we come to consider the smaller centres , such as Arkhanes ; could they have had territories which were on the same footing as those of the major temple-centres ? |
| 12 | But sometimes before going underground a boy , on leaving school , went to work on the screens which were on the surface — top-pit . |
| 13 | That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine . |
| 14 | Three people ( GF , MM , and MS ) lived in houses which were on the same site as other residential facilities ( called ‘ campus ’ houses in the remainder of this paper ) . |
| 15 | But the campaigners found only four fridges which were on the list of ozone-friendly household appliances . |
| 16 | on this in our January meeting , February meeting I 'm sorry , February meeting , are there any other comments members want to make now about proposals which were on the table , about the actual route line which was the one |
| 17 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 18 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 19 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 20 | The imprisoned Mr Mandela has met in recent months more than a dozen of the chieftains and assorted dignitaries — his Xhosa wife , Winnie , among them - who were on the podium . |
| 21 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 22 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 23 | But then , as Blackstone pointed out , the opinion gained ground that it would be to the advantage of trade , and of creditors in general , if debtors outside the scope of the bankruptcy laws who were on the point of insolvency could also surrender their property for the benefit of their creditors , and in return be protected from legal process . |
| 24 | Managers have been chosen by the old boy network , recommendations from people who were on the boards of charities . |
| 25 | The people who were on the radio when I first got into listening were really fine singers , people like Perry Como , Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby , but good as they were , they did n't inspire me to be like them . |
| 26 | Beyond them are the also-rans , other disaffected characters , who were on the receiving end of tempting , exciting , ego-boosting telephone calls which were never subsequently followed up , from headhunters of whom they never heard anything again . |
| 27 | The DPP , which wants an independent Taiwan and unlike the KMT harbours no dreams about the mainland , sees itself as representing the majority of the Taiwanese , who were on the island long before the mainland influx of the late 1940s . |
| 28 | ‘ . In another occasion of indecent assault whereby a drunken soccer fan ‘ put his hand up the British Airway girl 's skirt after she tried to subdue him and a group of pals who were on the duty-frees ’ ( Star ) — both the Star and the Sun avoided naming the air hostess . |
| 29 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 30 | This must seem like bliss to those who were on the rack for much of the last three years . |