Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 2 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 3 | Do you know you were on the verge of rank insubordination ? |
| 4 | The BBC refuse comment , except to say : ‘ Prince Charles expressed interest in the show and wanted to know who was on the bill . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’ |
| 6 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 7 | ‘ We do not definitely know they were on the flight but it is very unlikely they were not , ’ said Mr Beswick . |
| 8 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 9 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 10 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 11 | He wanted his fans to know he was on the mend . |
| 12 | " He 'd know what was on the bills of lading . |
| 13 | No boats to Ballachulish for Glencoe but I island-hopped instead up Loch Linnhe and walked the roadless east coastline of Lismore pretending I was on a boat . |
| 14 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 15 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 16 | Just when it seemed they were on the slide they nit Leicester with all they had , running in seven tries in a 37–6 victory . |
| 17 | That the kakar had seen the tigress was quite evident , and the only place where she could have seen her was on the track . |
| 18 | He stayed on , though it seemed he was on the point of departure , for moments together , stuck to his own indecisiveness like an insect on the tacky strips of paper designed to catch them . |
| 19 | But when one came it was on the break , Tovalieri getting Bari 's third . |
| 20 | The cinema was immediately adjacent to our house , so that every night we could hear the film and imagine what was on the screen . |
| 21 | It does n't matter what was on the outside . |
| 22 | Then , realising she was on the verge of helpless tears , she made a valiant effort to pull herself together . |
| 23 | About the only place you could see them was on the scrap heap . |
| 24 | I could see she was on the point of leaving . |
| 25 | As the news of Diana 's snubs emerged , Royal author Andrew Morton claimed she was on the verge of leaving the Royal Family . |
| 26 | Mr Raymond Stott , 60 , a retired ICI administrator , and his wife , Margaret , 55 , a teaching assistant , from Middleton , Greater Manchester , were initially told she was on a life suppport system . |
| 27 | Suppose I 'll have to put them both with a five can always buy her a plant or some or a box of chocolate 's , oh sorry Melvin brought you these , forgot you were on a diet |
| 28 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 29 | Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered . |
| 30 | JH : Moving on to another great love of yours , Franz Schubert ; I have always felt that he was in many ways cut short in his prime , almost as thought he was on the verge of finding himself creatively . |