Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets .
2 It was just before midnight and she was out on the terrace , staring out only half seeingly at the star-spangled horizon , when she heard the sound of a car drawing up at the front of the house .
3 Anne knew she was back on the Nightmare Express .
4 All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " .
5 Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms .
6 The hours flew by and it seemed no time at all until she was back on the train , reliving every moment as she travelled home .
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