Example sentences of "he was [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He was up on the podium , still a bit pale and puffy , but recovering gamely from her suicide . |
| 2 | ‘ No , ’ said the boy , ‘ but why did his wife say he was up on the roof if he was n't ? ’ |
| 3 | He was out on the farm now with Bruce and young Billy Keith . |
| 4 | He only started to relax when he was out on the stone-chip drive and walking away from the house . |
| 5 | This must have been when Parkin said he was out on the roof having a smoke , Dexter concluded . |
| 6 | Well he told me off because he was out on the erm bank sledging , outside the hotel so I called him in . |
| 7 | Katharine tickled Benji with the whip to keep the activity and the bend until he was back on the track . |
| 8 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 9 | She went on sitting there staring at him long after he was back on the floor . |
| 10 | He was back on the rails , and moving again . |
| 11 | A whispered ‘ Yes , ’ and he was back on the verandah , supporting himself on the rail , and bending over as though at any moment he might vomit . |
| 12 | Yeah , no , he was back on the wards |
| 13 | Then he was down on the sidewalk , rolling into the shadows for cover and tugging his automatic from its shoulder holster at the same time . |
| 14 | He was down on the shore , a shadow edged with silver light , combing the tide line . |
| 15 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 16 | I told him that I was going to come forward er and handcuff him and then , then something along the lines of er not to move er and then once he was down on the floor , erm I holstered the weapon into my own holster . |