Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] on a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the band stopped they were both on a tide of pleasure ; yet , she stepped away from him as though evading her share in the pleasure . |
| 2 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 3 | Vauxhall dealers Welch of Newport , Gwent , were also on a roll with five new cars being sold . |
| 4 | The siting of the circles were often on a saddle with a good view round to neighbouring hilltops . |
| 5 | We were sitting on rather low chairs , and he was very tall , so that when he placed himself at my corner his impedimenta were almost on a level with my nose . |
| 6 | It was just on a minute on page seventy-nine , I think we want to get the support of local M Ps , one a has I think , has been just indicated , is contradictory , it might be better to say , ‘ although the document indicated that local authorities would be expected to undertake extra , an extra , or extra duties , the resources needed are , no indication was given of how there would be extra resources , or something like that , you see it 's contradictory at the moment , it says there 's no indication of the role , and then says that they would need resources , and actually if you look through the document , you will see from time-to-time it is indicated what local authorities are expected to do , for instance recycling of litter and the lot , and I think that that might be actually picked up by M P's and say , ‘ Well , what actually have you , do you mean to say ’ , well , what we 're really saying , are we not , that here is an indication of things that we 're expected to do , but as usual , of course , the government has n't indicated what erm where the resources were coming from . |
| 7 | I had always been an erratic binge eater and was forever on a diet without losing weight due to bingeing/starving/vomiting . |
| 8 | After all , the top of the table that was once on a line with our chin now reaches only to our thighs . |
| 9 | He 'd been forty when Dickens died in 1870 , quite old enough to know that , whatever the fuss made over him , Dickens 's private life was hardly on a par with Queen Victoria 's . |
| 10 | As a result , Romanesque architecture lasted much longer than in Italy or France or England , indeed it was more on a par with Germany in this respect , but , equally , Gothic architecture when it arrived , also lasted much longer , delaying the Renaissance till the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century . |
| 11 | Already it was almost on a level with my straw palliasse . |