Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] on the [noun] " 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 | ‘ Were you on the ice ? ’ |
| 4 | Why were you on the Moor alone ? |
| 5 | Where were they on the Sunday , that 'd be what … ? ’ |
| 6 | Mm , were they on the dock ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two more golden eagle sightings were ours on the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But there was nothing on the bed . |
| 11 | ‘ But there was nothing on the horizon . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And now here was someone on the phone saying , Is Boy there ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the middle of the century Arkesilas was himself on the run , fleeing from Cyrene via Euesperides to the west , where he was assassinated . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or , on the other hand , was she on the level ? |
| 19 | Was she on the verge of falling into the same trap again ? |
| 20 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 21 | There was something on the workbench , covered up with a cloth . |
| 22 | ‘ There was something on the wireless about the earthquake in Turkey , ’ Anne said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There was something on the side too . |
| 25 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 26 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One of the most interesting papers on stratigraphical palaeontology published in recent years was one on the dating of old mining camps in the American West by means of beer bottles and beer cans . |
| 30 | That was him on the door . |