Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was also on the receiving end of some pranks played on me by the cameramen . |
| 2 | ‘ I was once on the receiving end of one I think when I bought a suit in Hong Kong . |
| 3 | In his presence she was constantly on the defensive , and that made her uncharacteristically prickly . |
| 4 | She was doubly on the defensive as his gaze flicked over her , taking in the pale lemon dress she was wearing , its scooped neckline , she suddenly realised , revealing the deepening suntan on her shoulders and the curve of her breasts . |
| 5 | She was always on the alert for a scene of frustration between husband and wife . |
| 6 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 7 | By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically . |
| 8 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 9 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 10 | The Doctor had assured them that they were now on the same level as they had started on , but Francis was n't convinced . |
| 11 | The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 ( see p. 131 above ) and the Vatican Council demonstrated , by the very extremism of their rejection of everything that characterised the mid-nineteenth century , that they were entirely on the defensive . |
| 12 | No doubt some of them were rather on the dreary side but that is not the full story by any means . |
| 13 | It was right on the main road and he was there years and years and years |
| 14 | They shook hands , but it was clearly on the unspoken understanding that they could still come out fighting . |
| 15 | My associations with Wenceslas Square were not so much with the events of 1989 , though it was here on the 18th November that the crowds gathered to protest about the police violence of the night before . |
| 16 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 17 | It was probably on the treacherous PEVERIL LEDGES of tumbled ‘ marble ’ , burr and rag — jutting out into the sea like a jagged nail — that the Danish fleet , chased by King Alfred , was wrecked in a sea mist in 877 . |
| 18 | He had n't seen the tug at first because it was alongside on the far side . |
| 19 | So it was all on the last set … in the last five matches between these two Lizzie Jelfs has won all five … |
| 20 | And it was only on the final day of their trip to London that the Hit Men took the tiny teenager into the recording studio . |
| 21 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 22 | On the way back to Harwich , the newspapers did a marvellous job of keeping my mind off things , and it was only on the last leg of the journey that the butterflies started to flutter again . |
| 23 | I would have to guess at the others because I did n't do erm sums on the other ones it was only on the last play but if it 's on the same sort of erm proportions , then I would say somewhere around thirty percent of the audience are concessions . |
| 24 | He can be seen as representative of the pre-war analysis of social problem in biological , hereditarian terms although he was firmly on the dominant environmentalist wing of the Eugenics Society itself . |
| 25 | He was mostly on the defensive and , towards the end , he came as near as possible to resignation , but throughout he gave remarkably little ground on either issue . |
| 26 | Hardly had he returned to Malaya in 1935 than he was again on the upward ladder : in 1937 in the conventional testing ground of an African secretariat , Lagos , followed in 1939 by promotion to the difficult post of chief secretary of troubled Palestine . |
| 27 | At New Winchelsea and in North Wales , the king was dealing with his own land , as he was also on the abortive site of New Town beside Poole Bay . |
| 28 | Presumably he had used his wiles on the pretty blonde receptionist on duty to elicit this information , which would explain why he was here on the fifth-floor landing harassing her . |
| 29 | Kevin Inkster discarded the loose chain when he was dissatisfied with the cut it gave , but it made him realise that he was certainly on the right lines . |
| 30 | Senior 's success strengthened Sam 's belief that he was definitely on the right line . |