Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] road [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 2 | They were on the road again just before four , when the fierce pin-point sun had lost some of its bite . |
| 3 | They went all the way by car and she does n't think they were on the road very long . |
| 4 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was on the road just outside Bid array and beside the Nive that I once came close to running a fish over , a glossy trout that seemed to be flipping its way desperately to the roadside and to safety . |
| 6 | They were entitled in my judgment to take into account the actual use by the defendant company and the previous owner in determining what the ordinary use of that vehicle was on the road so far as it is relevant to the question they had to answer . |