Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't like to seem stuffy friend , but if Bonanza and Mahoney were on the outs I would know it . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ Neil was on the back but he ca n't tell us much about it yet . |
| 4 | Mo was on the defensive here . |
| 5 | The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 6 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 7 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 8 | Donna was on the telephone . |
| 9 | Graham Hill was on the wane — though he raced until I975 when he was killed in a plane crash , he scored only 11 points in the seventies . |
| 10 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 11 | A sort of bovine preoccupation enveloped me when Rebecca was on the way . |
| 12 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes Elisa was on the settee in the sitting room where , at last , she regained consciousness . |
| 14 | That was in the time when Dr Marks was principal and a young master named George Scott was on the staff , two of the best remembered Britishers who ever lived in Burma . |
| 15 | Well he had a , Newport was on the line , er Cambridge line so it was n't too bad |
| 16 | One of the young probationers from Bluebird was on the ward , and came in with an injection for him , to help him to go to sleep . |
| 17 | From the moment the Sex Pistols contract with A&M was rescinded , Branson was on the phone to McLaren , sometimes three times a day , with the same question . |
| 18 | True to his word , Nichols was on the phone to Dustin again to tell him he had got the part . |
| 19 | Whereas Mr Sourrouille was on the whole a free-marketeer , Mr Pugliese thinks the state should play a bigger role in the economy ; he did not say how . |
| 20 | Leading by 2 seconds after 2 days , McRae was on the road to victory ; the first for Britain in 16 years . |
| 21 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 22 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 23 | And I would have lost the chance to sail across the Pacific with Ellen , because Ellen was on the verge of agreeing to come with me , and if I had not yielded to the policeman 's blackmail I would have lost Ellen as well as my boat . |
| 24 | Now Ellen was on the other line . |
| 25 | Your grandparents seem to be fairly cheerful — Ken was on the phone last night , about some editing procedures connected with a project he 's recently undertaken . |
| 26 | However it meant Rocky was on the bench again . |
| 27 | Rocky was on the right , Rodney was on the left , Speed and McAllister were in the middle , Deane was up front and we had Weatherall and Newsome in their nightmare scenario pairing as centre backs . |
| 28 | RESTAURANT group Simpsons of Cornhill was on the verge today of being swallowed up by holiday and printing company Baldwin in a deal worth £1.7m . |
| 29 | By this time Travis was on the horrible scene of the accident , the bloodstained white dress revealing a gruesome sight . |
| 30 | The last time Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro were on the same set was eight years ago , for New York , New York . |