Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 2 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 3 | Letters were written either on a one-to-one basis , or , by circulating copies to network members , as one-to-many communications . |
| 4 | Throughout the insertion procedure , pressure and pH were displayed continuously on a computer monitor for identification of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 5 | WHEN Germany 's politicians agreed in March on a ‘ solidarity pact ’ to help pay the cost of unification , their eyes were fixed dreamily on a distant future . |
| 6 | Then he learnt that she was the man 's daughter , and frivolous thoughts were swept away on a tide of sympathy . |
| 7 | AN EPIC match , of huge social and political significance beyond the narrow confines of Barbados , had almost everything save perhaps a crowd , and reached an enthralling climax on the final morning when South Africa , needing only 79 runs with eight wickets remaining for an historic victory in their first Test for 22 years , were swept away on a floodtide of West Indian pride and aggression . |
| 8 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 9 | The two other boys were sitting neatly on a sofa in the distance but they failed to acknowledge them . |
| 10 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 11 | Children observed different metal objects ( a nail , a tin can , wire wool and a copper pipe ) which were left outside on a plastic tray . |
| 12 | Deputies were elected both on a constituency basis and as representatives of official bodies like the Academy of Sciences , the trade unions and so on . |
| 13 | Kurunagala , the centre of the Northern Band , remained an economic backwater in the 1860s , but in the late 1880s and 1890s coconut plantations were established there on a large scale . |