Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , I was on a coach to the boat show erm at Earls Court when , when I read it |
| 2 | When I saw the room , I immediately wanted to call the whole thing off , but the chap already had the cheque and I was on a hiding to nothing with my landlord so I would just have to put up with it . |
| 3 | That 's sa surprise cos I was on the way to Hull oh yes ! |
| 4 | Before splicing a dozen lagers , I was on the blower to Reg to tell him that hencewith and foreforth he was no longer an employee of Athletico Whaddon . |
| 5 | A month or two ago I was on the phone to the Baltic , to obtain some bloodcurdlingly seditious statement from the local nationalists . |
| 6 | I feel well and th and I try er and my husband 's nieces they often ring me up er well I was on the phone to one of them when you came yesterday . |
| 7 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 8 | It was like , get on to those bloody phone people , he said , I was on the phone to them for half an hour , yesterday , he said have n't turned up , he said , and I organized m I work around and everything . |
| 9 | I was on the phone to UNICEF earlier this afternoon and they are very much encouraged by what has happened . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , come on , you were on the phone to him when I came in . |
| 11 | He , you know that bloke who you said you were on the phone to in Liverpool and he 's got |
| 12 | Not like when you were on the way to the knacker 's — that was different , was n't it ? ’ |
| 13 | When she was on the phone to Vivienne she suddenly turned round and shouted , which one 's Glen ? |
| 14 | A COMPUTER expert was sacked when he handcuffed himself to his woman boss while she was on the phone to a customer . |
| 15 | 6–9 Mrs Holliday , Bowmore , applied for the baptism of her daughter in the absence of her husband who was on a voyage to Africa and not expected to return for a year , and as they were " satisfied with Mrs Holliday 's knowledge as to the ordinance and the obligation " they agreed . |
| 16 | While producing a series of vocal recitals at CBC I had the pleasure of working with Mrs John Christie ( Audrey Mildmay ) , who was on a visit to Vancouver , and who had a remarkably fine singing voice . |
| 17 | Especially playing some 3rd div side — we were on a hiding to nothing . |
| 18 | It was suggested that a head who tried to do everything was on the way to an early grave ( Torrington and Weightman 1991:6 ) . |
| 19 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 20 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 21 | No , stuck it over David 's head , he were on the phone to a client , we took a photo , somebody took a photo of it , we knocked on the door we said David have you got a minute ? |
| 22 | It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful . |
| 23 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 24 | It was on a visit to Ulverston that he first met Thomas West , who was working on his historical and topographic work on the area . |
| 25 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 26 | it could expand , unless it could gather strength and produce an army er it was on the road to annihilation which was their the course of erm Chiang Kai-Shek 's was n't it ? |
| 27 | It was on the journey to London on that cold January night that the Weston brothers overtook the Bristol Mail . |
| 28 | No , it was on the way to erm on the way to Earthenburg that the garage just before Earthenburg , last one on the |
| 29 | But he was on a hiding to nothing really . |
| 30 | Saibou had described the police action on Feb. 9 ( which occurred when he was on a visit to Guinea-Bissau ) as " a mistake " , and had set up an inquiry into the incident . |