Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 2 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 3 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 4 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
| 5 | I rang the doctor , hoping he would suggest transferring her to Tewkesbury or Evesham , but he was out on a coronary emergency , so I had to wait . |
| 6 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 7 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |