Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | I knew though that they 'd work it out in the end so I was on the look-out for a new job . |
| 7 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 8 | we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little |
| 9 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 10 | Once they were on the floor their feet were bound and somebody was left on guard beside them . |
| 11 | But once they were on the market , the corp had spent a lot of R and D money coming up with a way to beat them . |
| 12 | This was more possible on the east and south elevations which adjoin the head of the village street and a public car park access road respectively than it was on the west and south sides . |
| 13 | Yeah , his his number 's on the dice happen to leave him so he was on the race track , so it 's up to him now . |
| 14 | Once he was on the mend , we decided to try and do something about his crooked leg . |
| 15 | If I were on the pay side in the Treasury , I would be prepared to permit maximum flexibility on the salary and conditions offered to the successful applicant . |
| 16 | Towards noon , the mirage drew nearer , to about half a mile , as if I were on an island trapped by the in-coming tide . |
| 17 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if I was on a picket line or somewhere , I could give him a pretty hard old shove without pulled in , I would imagine . |
| 19 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 20 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 21 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 22 | If I was on the tiger 's side — running the other mob — I 'd be in no hurry to pounce . |
| 23 | ‘ I just thought Britain was getting like a treadmill , and that if I was on the spot in the States I 'd be able to chivvy them around a bit more . |
| 24 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 25 | I do n't remember anything else until I was on the bank throwing up water and puking in the mud while the sound-man thumped on my back and put his fists in my stomach . |
| 26 | Cos I was on the afternoon shift and as I told you I was getting twenty five bob a day . |
| 27 | That 's sa surprise cos I was on the way to Hull oh yes ! |
| 28 | Yeah having worked in newspapers er for two or three years I n I now know that the er what you look , well I did n't look for cos I was on the business page , what people look for is a good story and it does n't |
| 29 | Again I had a sense of excitement as I touched her , holding her hand , then her arm , until she was on the boat , looking for a towel . |
| 30 | Cos she was on the phone crying that er she 's got a hole in the side of her house sort of thing . |