Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about then I felt as if I were on a small boat on stormy seas . |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't ask him for help if I were on a sinking ship and he was the only one with a lifebelt ! ’ |
| 3 | I was on a real holiday buzz , had a big , erm … party , y'know , and got totally fuckin' kettled . |
| 4 | On the day of the first ballot , February 4 , 1 975 , I was on a political tour of the East Midlands . |
| 5 | I was on a tricky bend , the road falling away sharply and badly in need of a grader . |
| 6 | Clear as day — I was on a winning streak , I 'd hit a seam . |
| 7 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 8 | I was on a local council for some years that thought it was well run , but we still found it possible to get rid of a tier of management . |
| 9 | D. A. I was on a school-crossing duty for disabled children and I held up my hand for a motor cyclist to stop and he rode right past me . |
| 10 | a dangerous dog , as defined by section 1 of the dangerous dogs act 1991 , in a private car which was on a public highway was in a public place , within the meaning of section 10(2) of the act and was therefore required to be muzzled and on a lead as prescribed by section 1(2) ( d ) of the act . |
| 11 | He got more and more entangled in committees of the ecumenical movement , which was on a rising tide of Christian hope , and which badly needed trained English academics to help . |
| 12 | She began to wish she were on a surgical ward , but there was no chance of that happening within the next couple of months . |
| 13 | In that respect , I was different from other reporters who were on a big story one day and a ‘ bun worry ’ the next . |
| 14 | You were on a raised platform and I passed before you in the parade . " |
| 15 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |
| 16 | She was on a long time . |
| 17 | But , you see , she was on a real pardon me ! |
| 18 | But she was on a winning streak , a lucky wave ; she would nip down to the Gas Board and fix things up . |
| 19 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 20 | Either something had happened to her or those two fivers had gone to her head and she was on a day-long spree . |
| 21 | They had met eight months before in Houston where she was on a promotional tour for her Budgie books . |
| 22 | At Campbell Island he met John Biscoe [ q.v. ] , who was on a similar search for land in the Antarctic . |
| 23 | The commissioner was Judge Ireland who was on a temporary transfer from Scotland . |
| 24 | On Oct. 7 , a friendship and co-operation treaty was initialled by Dienstbier and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the presence of Havel and the German President , Richard von Weizsäcker , who was on a five-day state visit to Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | Eila Karjalainen was a Finnish student who was on a hitch-hiking holiday in England . |
| 26 | She proposed that the new king and his brother , who was on a brief visit to Ludlow , should be escorted to London by a substantial body of troops . ’ |
| 27 | There were 13 of us , aged 17 — 19 , and we were on a month-long adventure organised by World Challenge Expeditions , a company which offers young people the opportunity to join treks around the world , from the mountains of Nepal to the rainforests of Ecuador . |
| 28 | I could hardly credit it when Carole said we were on a cushy number ; she 'd spent whole days hacking down rhododendrons and that was really back-breaking work . |
| 29 | WE were on a northerly course , well into the Arctic Circle , east of Jan Mayen Island . |
| 30 | ‘ Maybe it is n't accessible , ’ Ash said , fag in mouth , holding the steering wheel with her knees and making a stretching , circling motion with her shoulders ( we were on a quiet stretch of motorway , thankfully ) . |