Example sentences of "[was/were] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to learn the Book of Job by heart , but never got safely past the end of the second chapter ; the first two chapters were on the dull side , overloaded with yoke of oxen and she-asses , with Eliphaz the Temanite , Bildad the Shuhite , and Zophar the Naamathite , Job 's comforters . |
| 2 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 3 | If you were on the new year 's Honours list you 'd be pretty chuffed too . |
| 4 | Mandeville , Southgate and Damien were on the other gallery . |
| 5 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 6 | For what good it was going to do me , I was fairly sure that these two were on the other end of the lead poisoning Connors and I had nearly contracted . |
| 7 | Anything else that you noticed when you were on the other side of the road ? |
| 8 | The whole of the school would join in that , boys and girls were together , they were se segregated in the hall you did n't sit next to a girl or anything like that , the boys were on one side , the girls were on the other side . |
| 9 | They were on the other side of the bed , crossed over , shaped like a swastika . |
| 10 | Ha ha ha ha how did it come about that you were on you were on one side very firmly and the employers were on the other side very firmly and sides had been had been drawn up ? |
| 11 | Most of the bazaars were on the other side of the gate . |
| 12 | Perhaps our wine fell into the hands of looters , though we were on the Pakistani side and Muslims are n't supposed to touch alcohol . ’ |
| 13 | Actually , As You Like It has an all-male cast of 14 , is uproariously funny , absorbing , brilliant , gripping theatre , — so good that seats were on the black market in Dublin . |
| 14 | From what Neil had told me over supper last night , I knew that the main bird colonies were on the western side of the island , where the cliffy coastline was cut into deep gullies , some of them sheer , and some filled with tumbles of massed boulders . |
| 15 | My parents and Joan were on the crowded pavement near an ice-cream cart and a streamer seller . |
| 16 | While all eyes were on the majestic bird above them , Tallis had seen the fluttering movement of a more sinister flock , in the high trees around the river . |
| 17 | She sat Nicandra down on her own chair , the chair that always smelt , in a hesitating way , of Nannie 's bottom , and knelt to take off the laced boots — Maman held to a rather Chinese theory on the suppression of growth ; the white kid boots were on the small side and not often replaced because they were French , very expensive , and not obtainable from Start-rite . |
| 18 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 19 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 20 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 21 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 22 | As for the progress of the summit talks , the President insisted only that they " were on the right track " . |
| 23 | Now on Friday we were saying that Gloucester were on the right track … that West Hartlepool would be railroaded by them on saturday … bad news … the cherry and whites suffered a points failure … they went and lost by six points to twenty one |
| 24 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 25 | In this battle , secondary schools and their students were on the front line . |
| 26 | They were on the front doorstep , or round the front doorstep , probably say on the front doorstep , trouble is they found the front doorstep on the side |
| 27 | When we were on the Big Wheel . ’ |
| 28 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |
| 29 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 30 | Four were on the main street ; the fifth was on the western edge of the village . |