Example sentences of "she [was/were] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinny went bright red and started towards the door so fast that Keith did not catch her up until she was outside on the path . |
| 2 | She was outside on the step , gazing at the winter afternoon . |
| 3 | She was just on the point of leaving for London when her brother phoned to say that their mother was dying . |
| 4 | She was either on the level or a damn good actress . |
| 5 | She was here on a mission , and the sooner she set out on it the better ! |
| 6 | She really must put Maria Luisa and Steve and Fernando out of her mind and concentrate on what she was here on the island of Majorca for — to work . |
| 7 | But she was away on the day he struck out . |
| 8 | She was only on the Moon in transit after all , like everybody else . |
| 9 | She was only on the phone for a minute but that was all it took . ’ |
| 10 | But Bernice was sure she was still on the planet : the fourth wall and the floor consisted of blocks of masonry , and the gravity felt exactly the same as it had before the transmat trip . |
| 11 | She could n't ever show him ‘ plain , old-fashioned pleasantness ’ because , with him , she was constantly on a knife-edge , terrified that one false move would end in a catastrophic tumble . |
| 12 | She was almost on the verge of just letting her will be subsumed into his was n't she ? |
| 13 | She had volunteered two days ‘ school run ’ , but she was forever on the phone , and Louis was well used to the delays and lateness in the family caused by his mother 's interminable phone conversations . |
| 14 | She was always on the move . |
| 15 | She was seldom on the premises . |