Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] was on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I was on Sunday , yes indeed . |
| 2 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 3 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 4 | For the remainder of the carol I was on tenterhooks , not daring to take my eyes from the lectern . |
| 5 | When I was at Bullwood Hall I was on Triptazol [ a tranquilliser ] for me temper . |
| 6 | For the moment he was on top on India . |
| 7 | ‘ One minute I was on top of the world and everything was going right . |
| 8 | Mr E. Myer of Guestling , Sussex , well remembers the night he was on sentry duty from midnight to 2am ; several bombs fell close to the tunnel entrance and he decided to take refuge in one of the recesses let into the tunnel walls . |
| 9 | it was too late came Saturday night he was on morphine tablets , I stayed with him all day Sunday , and I could see he was dying then , I stayed with him all night , all day , and then , gone Saturday night |
| 10 | But at the price it was on offer I could not refuse . |
| 11 | Fair comment , but this week she was on holiday , did n't stop her and going and leaving them poor dogs in there barking their heads off and crying , for seven and a half hours did it ? |
| 12 | He looked as amazing as he always did in his stage costume , twice the size he was on stage , twice as powerful . |
| 13 | your worships Mrs appears before the court today as a result of an accident which occurred on the twenty fifth of July at about four thirty in the afternoon it was on King Street at Worley and there was only her vehicle involved and a young girl who was using the pedestrian crossing . |
| 14 | Sort of , when we went to see Jan 's mother for Christmas , I was saying to myself yeah , mm this time last year I was on holiday from work |
| 15 | When we played Battyburn last year it was on telly in Ireland and Leeds that day were brutal . |
| 16 | It was well after midnight and the cold surface of the Thames had only its elemental nature in common with a desert pool , and although she was once again sitting in the shadow of the Sphinx it was on cold , wet stone and not on sunbaked sand . |
| 17 | She had had no idea he was on Dartmoor , for she never asked Timothy any questions about him . |
| 18 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
| 19 | At this time I was on holiday and I spent the next three days redecorating my sitting room ( a boring task , but necessary ) while waiting for the G4 to harden . |
| 20 | Cos the first time he was on Thursday last week . |
| 21 | All the time he was on stage , it was difficult for audiences to think of him as other than the ‘ Carry On ’ character or the voice they knew on the radio or now on television . |