Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |
| 2 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 3 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 4 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 5 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 6 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 7 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 8 | As it is , we are up on the same period last year , but sales through the till are down by nearly 8% . ’ |
| 9 | But let smaller pictures of God satisfy us and squeeze him out , and we are back on the easier road to cheap grace and nominal faith . |
| 10 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 11 | We 've , I do n't know if everyone 's worked the same system , but we 're back on the old appointment system . |
| 12 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 13 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 14 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 15 | But for no more than half-a-dozen months — and then they are back on the high seas again , pursuing their trade . |
| 16 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 17 | They 're out on the twenty of March or something . |
| 18 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 19 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 20 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 21 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 22 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 23 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 24 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 25 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 26 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 27 | Then you get so drunk that he steals your cab and he 's off on the loose once more . ’ |
| 28 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 29 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 30 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |