Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] on the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 4 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ There was something on the wireless about the earthquake in Turkey , ’ Anne said . |
| 11 | There was something on the workbench , covered up with a cloth . |
| 12 | There was something on the side too . |
| 13 | We are very sorry the train at number eleven platform eleven , when you get to Lemington on it , get out if you 're going to Banbury , there will be a coach , because there 's a fire at Banbury , well I thought it meant there was something on the other side of the railway , it was , a factory near there so , so then er they get you in |
| 14 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 15 | There was one on the persecution of the Church , another on the post-war internment camps for dissidents , another on the collectivisation of the villages , still another on the show trials of the early 1950s . |
| 16 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 17 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 18 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 19 | 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 . |