Example sentences of "they were on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 2 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 3 | ‘ They were on the look-out for a female DJ so everyone was very up for me from the word go . |
| 4 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 5 | She slept deeply while they were on the motorway , but woke as he came into London and had to stop and start in the heavy evening traffic . |
| 6 | They were called ‘ Fifth Amendment Communists ’ and they were on the ‘ Black List ’ which , officially , never existed . |
| 7 | All three quickened their pace to a near run and nobody spoke until they were on the safe side of the orchard wall . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not very good , I 'm afraid , ’ he said when they were on the floor waiting for the band to strike up . |
| 9 | As the most intellectually enlightened of the sects , they were on the side of the ruling power . |
| 10 | A common prostitute — you could n't call any woman a common prostitute because they were on the game with some chap . |
| 11 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 12 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 13 | Everyone took turns to patrol the streets at night during air raids , and had to be particularly vigilant in the event of firebombs , because if they were on the spot with their fire buckets of sand and water , many a fire could be put out before it got too bad . |
| 14 | Thus by the 1770s they were on the threshold of a national discipline-orientated community . |
| 15 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 16 | They were on the backs of my hands and even on the soles of my feet . |
| 17 | A week after they arrived at Kinghorn , they were on the road back to Inverkeithing . |
| 18 | When the regiment was about to leave , the same little posse returned to the centre of the town to tell tradesmen they were on the move , and it would be in their interests to stop giving further credit immediately . |
| 19 | They were on the phone for an hour , not really speaking , a few words scattered among the silence . |
| 20 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 21 | Presumably cars from 36–40 were chosen for these experimental features as they were on the newest trucks . |
| 22 | They were confident that they were on the winning side of history and did not need to take precautions against exile in the autumn of their lives . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 26 | You found them everywhere and in the sun all of them were beginning to be too big for their blue jeans and jackets that they could never fill when they were on the bum and hungry . |
| 27 | They were on the Home Service , along with all the programmes about how to make do in the kitchen what with the rationing , and the fireside chats from the Prime Minister . |
| 28 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 29 | He said later he had been unaware they were on the list of defaulters . |
| 30 | They were on the dashboard of his getaway van , which he crashed after the £2,000 raid in Leigh-on-Sea , Essex . |