Example sentences of "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 . |