Example sentences of "[noun sg] she [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination .
2 She reached the buffer and rolled out from underneath the freight car , safe in the knowledge she was on the sniper 's blindspot .
3 On another occasion she was on the bus with fellow sixth-former Huma Farooqui when another passenger launched into a verbal assault .
4 We were unable to meet with the Chairwoman of the Iraqi Women 's Federation , Manal Younis , as at the time she was on a ship bound for Iraq with a cargo of medicines and milk .
5 Take Denise , for instance , who had told her boyfriend she was on the Pill when she was n't :
6 By noon she was on the Brecon by-pass and , less than an hour later , was steering gingerly between the ruts on the rough and winding track to Hendre Gorfelen .
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