Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 3 | She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband . |
| 4 | Carl 's parents Lorraine and David , of nearby Hateley Heath , were at his bedside in Sandwell District General Hospital , where he was on a life support machine . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been claimed that their parents did not know the full extent of the dealings or what was on the films . ’ |
| 6 | Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market . |
| 7 | I never doubted that I was on a road that led somewhere . |
| 8 | The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go . |
| 9 | These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council . |
| 10 | Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters . |
| 11 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 12 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |
| 13 | The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first . |
| 14 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 15 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 16 | I was very unhappy , because I saw then that I was on an island . |
| 17 | Maxham was one of the chatty type , like a superior salesman , a foot through the door before you had time to register that someone was on the doorstep . |
| 18 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 19 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 20 | I knew though that they 'd work it out in the end so I was on the look-out for a new job . |
| 21 | Through the glass she saw that she was on a shelf in the potion laboratory and the tall figure of her form-mistress was swirling out of the door . |
| 22 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 23 | As Martha tried on each garment in turn , Elizabeth could see that she was on the verge of tears . |
| 24 | The grim knowledge that she was on the verge of suffocation appalled me and when she stumbled and almost fell the hand in my pocket gripped more tightly on the scalpel which I had taken from my car along with the adrenalin . |
| 25 | Joanna 's mouth opened and Sophie could see that she was on the verge of an angry retort but the situation was saved by the entry of the veterinary nurse , carrying a tray . |
| 26 | She had n't told Alice , that she was on the hook . |
| 27 | He must indeed have been utterly determined to thwart her — not to say very certain that she was on the train . |
| 28 | The anxiety that she was on the point of doing so created a mounting sense of urgency during the 1870s . |
| 29 | You let me think you had a serious boyfriend , that you were on the point of marriage . ’ |
| 30 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |