Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 2 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 3 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 4 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 5 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 6 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 7 | Lights were on on the Kingston road bridge soaring over the murky river . |
| 8 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 9 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 10 | I know he w she were on about a room were n't she ? |
| 11 | I thought I thought you were on about a book that |
| 12 | Yeah Craigy were on about a bus , a bus and erm little'un said bus . |
| 13 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 14 | oh well whatever , no it was n't , they were on about the B B C |
| 15 | you know the other night you were on about the fish that you had for your tea |
| 16 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 17 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 18 | Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light . |
| 19 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 20 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 21 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 22 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |
| 23 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 24 | The lights were on inside the hut . |
| 25 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 26 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 27 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 28 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 29 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 30 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |