Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 2 | ‘ Were you on the Crusade ? ’ |
| 3 | Why were you on the Moor alone ? |
| 4 | ‘ Were you on the ice ? ’ |
| 5 | Were we on the right track at all ? |
| 6 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 7 | Where were they on the Sunday , that 'd be what … ? ’ |
| 8 | Mm , were they on the dock ? |
| 9 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 10 | The back comprises two pieces of flame-patterned maple veneer that would have collectors going wild were it on the front of a similarly-aged Les Paul Standard . |
| 11 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 12 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 13 | After a week Harry returned to Maurice , once again when there was no-one on the boat , took away his consignment of hairdryers , and threw the lantern and the paving-stones overboard . |
| 14 | I mean there was nothing on a , on a formal level or anything |
| 15 | All the studio guys used hopped-up Fenders , and all the rock players used Marshalls , but ultimately there was nothing on the front of the amp that said my name . |
| 16 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 17 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 18 | There was nothing on the seven o'clock news ; she listened again at eight and nine but still there was no mention of the hunt for Rick Lawrence . |
| 19 | Sometimes he 'd look across at me , when my mum was deep in a copy of Psychic News and there was nothing on the television , any time from May to October . |
| 20 | And now here was someone on the phone saying , Is Boy there ? |
| 21 | The operator , surly in her attitude , did n't inform Duncan that they had answered , and it was a moment before he realized that there was someone on the line . |
| 22 | yeah , I would n't call that cheap oh there was summat on t' other day , Sunday , and I told him and he forgot about it did n't he ? , |
| 23 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 24 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 25 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 26 | Or , on the other hand , was she on the level ? |
| 27 | Was she on the verge of falling into the same trap again ? |
| 28 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 29 | ‘ There was something on the wireless about the earthquake in Turkey , ’ Anne said . |
| 30 | There was something on the workbench , covered up with a cloth . |