Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then all the , all the little children , some of them with very serious illnesses , but seeing how brave they were on the wards , it was a very moving six months . |
| 2 | He said later he had been unaware they were on the list of defaulters . |
| 3 | While Iran was undergoing fundamental changes in the seventies he was on the outside , instead of authority at home . |
| 4 | I had one name left and lucky it was on the back and just talking and talking and talking , it 's erm , it was in my bag , and it did , it did pick up |
| 5 | Donna shivered slightly , noticing how cold it was on the train . |
| 6 | They 're here and she 's there , after all I was on the point of signing off when Selina started telling me , in accents of alarmingly genuine arousal , about this rich new boyfriend of hers , this transatlantic moneyman , how he took her to hotels and dressed her up and fucked her on the floor like a dog . |
| 7 | After all they were on the verge of an amazing come back . |
| 8 | Yet it was John Lightfoot [ q.v. ] , the Christian Hebraist at Cambridge , who secured an academic position for Abendana , and from 1663 until 1667 he was on the payroll of Trinity College , Cambridge , working on his translation of the Mishnah . |
| 9 | no , it was n't a filter , all it was on the end of a cigarette what you put in your mouth , it was a cork tip , but there was no filter , no filter inside it , the tobacco come right to the end |
| 10 | From the way her mouth twitched , it was plain she was on the verge of breaking down . |
| 11 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 12 | It 's like what 's his name Sammy Davis , when he was alive he was on the telly doing all these and he said how can you do this fellows now he said ? |
| 13 | Thus by the 1770s they were on the threshold of a national discipline-orientated community . |
| 14 | Now it is free , and very agreeable it was on a spring morning to walk through its coppices and gardens of oak and maple , white roses and birches and every kind of shrub . |
| 15 | At last we were on the gravel by the side colonnade . |
| 16 | Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union . |