Example sentences of "she [was/were] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Raymond Stott , 60 , a retired ICI administrator , and his wife , Margaret , 55 , a teaching assistant , from Middleton , Greater Manchester , were initially told she was on a life suppport system . |
| 2 | But what would she do when she realized that , with things as they were , she was on a life sentence , not just a temporary suspension of essential pleasure ? |
| 3 | She was on a sheet , naked with her legs spread apart . |
| 4 | Dancer he knew — she was on a bill with me and Lennie down the Hackney Empire . |
| 5 | No , she was on a crest of ability and luck , and she could make no mistakes . |
| 6 | When she was with Lowell she was on a pedestal — she could n't even swear — but his love-making was fantastic . |
| 7 | And she was on a camcorder today . |
| 8 | She was saying she was on a camcorder today . |
| 9 | She felt a little exposed and felt her way along until she discovered she was on a ledge . |
| 10 | ‘ And even if they really are fakes — synthetic fur — ’ she was on a roll now' — it 's made from petrochemicals and they 're non-biodegradable and therefore damaging to the environment . ’ |
| 11 | One was that , since she was on a fool 's errand anyway , she was n't going to dress up for it . |
| 12 | She was on a balcony level of an arcade which must specialize in manufacturing small components , and was still doing so . |
| 13 | In eighty three , when it was obvious that the Conservatives were gon na win because then if you , if , this is history now , but the Labour Party was led by Michael Foot then , it was it was in no shape to win the election in erm the Conservatives were , were led by Thatcher , she was on a high after the Falklands War , the Conservatives romped home . |
| 14 | She felt as though she was on a high . |
| 15 | Through the glass she saw that she was on a shelf in the potion laboratory and the tall figure of her form-mistress was swirling out of the door . |
| 16 | ‘ He met a French schoolgirl called Falrinne when she was on a study course in Falmouth and was keen to see her again , ’ Mr Ian Taylor , prosecuting , said , ‘ but the only way he could get across the Channel was to take a boat . |
| 17 | Hartlepool schoolgirl Sarah Gascoigne , who missed the county championships when she was on a family holiday in America , was five seconds outside the qualifying time in the junior girls ' 800 metres with a time of 2:25.0 but she cleared 1.50 metres as a guest in the high jump , four centimetres inside the English Schools qualifying height . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If she was on a plane with the engines on fire she would want to be with someone like Matthew Blake . |
| 20 | Then there were the riding arrangements : she was on a four-year-old called Captive Audience . |
| 21 | But when she made a last appeal , and told him , though feeling it was not quite true , that Martha had asked him to bring her father back , and then , very unwisely , referred again to Mrs Hodge , and the house , and the single bed , and even the temple bells , and asked him why he did n't come to his senses and whether he did n't think he 'd be happier living with a woman , whether she was on a boat or not , he turned on her , upsetting the bowl of water in front of the gas fire , and shouted : |
| 22 | She was on a boat . ’ |
| 23 | She was on a couch of some silky padding that opened to her contours in a way that was obscurely obscene . |