Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next Friday when you go to get your money , cos I was n't always with the collier , mostly I was on the day work . |
| 2 | Apparently I was on the edge of the crater and the main blast had gone over me . |
| 3 | So I was on the lookout . |
| 4 | You know if you have the telly on number eight so you were on the video channel ? |
| 5 | This single action and comment implied a huge transformation in but one simple step , for suddenly we were on the edge of non-projected activity — ‘ some people outside my house ’ places the children in a markedly different relationship to the drama . |
| 6 | Oh wait a minute perhaps it was on the A drive . |
| 7 | That summer Lewis thought perhaps he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 8 | Perhaps he was on the point of leaving but the fracas caused by Waldegrave 's death prevented him . ’ |
| 9 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 10 | Admittedly I was on the Costa del Sol at a private international school and not in the capital . |
| 11 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 12 | She turned to look towards the shore , relieved when she saw the Sea-Fret making good headway back to Brides Haven , then a flock of screaming gulls startled her into resuming her climb , and soon she was on the Neck and starting the last , steep push towards the plateau . |
| 13 | Soon we were on the Via Emilia , the great , straight Roman road that runs diagonally through the pianura from Milan to Rimini . |
| 14 | Soon they were on the sky bus , hundreds of metres above the dark Wambizi Woods . |
| 15 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 16 | Would that not cause er security problems if you put exactly what was on the box . |
| 17 | I remember once I was on the steps of a hotel in Liverpool , and a middle-aged woman wearing a maroon coat came up and said , ‘ Hey , George , you know I 've always loved you , could I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 18 | Yesterday they were on the apron at RAF Lyneham commemmorating the lives of nine dead colleagues . |
| 19 | Socially they were on the fringe of things . |
| 20 | A few weeks later I was on a troopship , the converted Andes , with 3,000 men , bound for the Middle East via the Cape . |
| 21 | Twenty minutes later they were on the Salzgitter Autobahn , heading for Nordhausen , some one hundred and ten kilometres to the south . |
| 22 | I took this threat rather lightly and for good reason , because some fifteen minutes later he was on the telephone to me talking about a completely different matter , as though the previous conversation had never taken place . |
| 23 | Seconds later he was on the phone again , bulling into the next prospect . |
| 24 | Sixty seconds later he was on the pavement of Lombard Street . |
| 25 | Often she was on the verge of tears for no reason , like a baby . |
| 26 | Now we were on the move . |
| 27 | Here , however , Christians could be found — at least in some areas — in greater concentration than in the West ; socially and culturally they were on a level not very different from their non-Christian peers . |
| 28 | Now they were on the catwalk , deep underneath the carapace . |
| 29 | Now he was on the edge of the pine forest at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 30 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |