Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 2 | They were getting on a bit when I was born . ’ |
| 3 | If a Japanese firm were brought on a tour around West Belfast they would see all the barbed wire and be discouraged . |
| 4 | Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city . |
| 5 | Chris Law of Internal Audit , Regent 's House and Susan Grieve of Leamington Spa Branch were taken on a tour of the department , given a slap-up lunch and presented with a £250 cheque by Bob McInnes , Branch Banking 's Deputy Managing Director . |
| 6 | Radio Cameroon said that two people were killed , many injured and 219 arrested ; it also alleged that " certain foreign radio stations " were carrying on a disinformation campaign against Cameroon . |
| 7 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
| 8 | Of course he had the sense to hurry when she was hanging on a line from New York . |
| 9 | On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions . |
| 10 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 11 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 12 | He was getting on a bit , transferred in to the Mounted . |
| 13 | ‘ He was getting on a bit , was n't he ? ’ |
| 14 | By working at the maltings was carrying on a tradition started by his grandfather , who had been a leading maltster at the same maltings . |
| 15 | She could not bind herself personally , with the result that she could not be made a bankrupt , unless she was carrying on a trade . |
| 16 | He shrugs like he was putting on a jacket . |
| 17 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 18 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
| 19 | Victoria , always pretty and amenable , was taken on a round of the treats considered traditional for an upper-class London child : the zoo , the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , ice-cream at Fortnum & Mason 's soda fountain , a visit to the enclosure reserved for some overweight rabbits near the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and a Christmas pantomime called Where the Rainbow Ends in which four intrepid children fed their pet British lion a medicine called the Commonwealth mixture . |
| 20 | PERSONAL VIEW The night rugby 's Holy Grail was taken on a bender |