Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] one on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The worst one was when we were doing one on Women 's Studies and I said look , let's have your title and let's have some kind of format .
2 Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high .
3 The Department for National Savings , for example , contains enough papers that if they were piled one on top of the other they would reach the height of nine and a half Mount Everests !
4 But they was lying one on top the other , duck — and the little lad was beneath and upside down .
5 She herself gave some of the lectures and was preparing one on business conditions in America .
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