Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within ten minutes they were seated on either side of Livesey 's desk , surrounded by files and account books . |
| 2 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 3 | They were fed on frozen European Bloodworm and frozen Daphnia , supplemented with live Bloodworm and Brineshrimp . |
| 4 | On 21 September 1989 committal proceedings commenced : they were concluded on 13 October . |
| 5 | They were concluded on 13 October 1989 and on 2 November the case was listed for trial in the Crown Court at Isleworth , the trial to commence on 11 December . |
| 6 | Another part ( principally the PFLP and PFLP-General Command ) felt closer to the rejectionist stance of Syria , and disliked the thought of any talks with the enemy unless they were based on equal or superior strength . |
| 7 | In June 1991 they were acquitted on all charges and proceedings under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 were discontinued . |
| 8 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 9 | In other words , statutory interventions , whether or not they were justified on legal grounds , needed to be located in a moral and human framework of compassion , care , and empathy . |
| 10 | Andy Warhol , Stockhausen , Peter Brook , appealed to her , but they were lost on most Iranians . |
| 11 | Its origins lie in those cheap American magazines of the " 20s and " 30s called " pulps ' ( because they were printed on cheap wood-pulp paper ) whose readers demanded tough stories about tough heroes , hard-boiled heroes as they were then called . |
| 12 | But they were staying on another week … ’ |
| 13 | They were subsisted on primitive versions of the ‘ store food ’ that wrecks the health of the dispossessed urban poor all over the world today : white bread and flour , white sugar and fat , some salted meat or fish , pitifully little fresh food . |
| 14 | Pointing out the value of two Wessex machines at Leuchars during the recent bad weather , Mr MacDougall said they were involved on numerous occasions . |
| 15 | On April 21 the Yemeni Deputy Information Minister Amakal Alim Susawa confirmed that Yemen had made a written offer to Saudi Arabia for discussions , after the latter had informed at least four foreign oil companies that they were trespassing on Saudi property . |
| 16 | They were mounted on long wheelbase trucks fitted with Lycett & Conaty radial gear in which the axles pivoted about the motors and there were no motor support springs , but there were very large protruding axle-boxes . |
| 17 | They were mounted on large mainframe computers for batch processing using a variety of packages and high level languages of which SPSS and Fortran dominated the social science world from which historians learnt so much . |
| 18 | They were remanded on conditional bail . |
| 19 | They were remanded on unconditional bail until June 24 for a pre-trial review . |
| 20 | I thought they were getting on fine . ’ |
| 21 | Under the first commander , Eric Hamilton Piercy , and adjutant Neil Francis Hawkins , they were organized on paramilitary lines , particularly the elite I Squad at the Black House , Mosley 's headquarters . |
| 22 | Rincewind swallowed hard when he saw them , because they were walking on that broad expanse of ceiling like flies . |
| 23 | They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana . |
| 24 | The king penguins , biggest in size and slowest to mature , moved into the crèche area ( off limits to visitors , but just behind the main penguin pool ) until they , too , had fledged , and they were put on public display during the summer . |
| 25 | They were standing on rough wooden boards . |
| 26 | They were standing on opposite sides of the fallen queen . |
| 27 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 28 | More often , however , navigation engineers were at odds with drainage men , especially when they were working on existing rivers . |
| 29 | He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 . |
| 30 | Forty-four-year-old Robin Phelps from Brockweir was one of two men who died after the gantry they were working on collapsed and fell more than a hundred and fifty feet into the Severn in September ( 1990 ) nineteen-ninety . |