Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 I was over on the island .
2 One day , a year later , I was over on the west side of the island .
3 Oh , no , I was n't down by the river , I was over on the side next to the road .
4 I was up on the box all the time ! ’
5 In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves .
6 Then the American announcer said , ‘ The bronze medal , Linford Christie , Great Britain , ’ and I was up on the plinth , the medal was around my neck and the Union Jacks were waving .
7 Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance .
8 However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning .
9 I was up on the hill when the woman came .
10 ‘ Last Saturday night I was up on the stage being congratulated on winning the car .
11 I 've got a lot of interesting stuff-after all , I was in on the ground floor .
12 The other day I was out on the hill when I came upon a herd of four stags , and I shot five of them , just as easy as that . ’
13 Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon .
14 I knew I was out on the motorway
15 I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes .
16 It 's lucky for you I was out on the towpath — ’
17 Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece .
18 When I was out on the road I mean before I came into training I was so I laid my cards at the table at this point in time to say yes I need to sell insurance erm and I always remember particular broker who you go in and and he 's saying well so how many of these particular products would you sell over the next year and he said oh twenty five and you go in great , guy 's promised to sell twenty five domestic contents policies over the next year .
19 So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be .
20 Erm , that may or may not have been deliberate , but it 's very important , particularly within a group , erm of people in negotiation , who were clear about roles , and when I was out on the road , I used to occasionally take the out , and I 'd go and see my broker and erm , I 'd say , oh we love to do fish and chip shops , we love insuring fish and chip shops .
21 I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this .
22 When I was out on the street , I was into crime and I was in prison all the time .
23 I was out on the moor from , it 's been a hell of a fortnight really
24 I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment !
25 Forty-five minutes after agreeing to write this I was down on the bridge at Abingdon watching the sun set across the Thames .
26 When I came back here I was down on the ground , looking for gold , I could n't find it .
27 Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach .
28 For the next few hours , I was back on the road , passing flatbed trucks carrying huge , tapering logs like giant carrots with their tips chopped off .
29 a little more wait and I was back on the bed of the big machine for a few parting shots .
30 The next day she was gone and the next night I was back on the ramp .
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