Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures for January this year were 11 up on the same month last year , when 73 women contacted Edinburgh Women 's Aid . |
| 2 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 3 | As it was , on the fourth day England batted steadily but without much conviction , Steele and Close the top scorers , and were all out on the last morning for 254 , leaving West Indies to make 323 runs in a minimum of 294 minutes . |
| 4 | The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges . |
| 5 | The Mexican boy and his father were both up on the boot . |
| 6 | Garth McGimpsey and Raymond Burns were both out on the Valley today after overnight 75s . |
| 7 | So the camera was right down on the bottom . |
| 8 | Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top ! |
| 9 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 10 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 11 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 12 | Although actual passenger numbers on international scheduled services rose 4 per cent during the month , this was well down on the 11 pc increase for January . |
| 13 | In Paris er , were top of the M & A league but the volume was well down on the record nineteen ninety . |
| 14 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |