Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 11 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 16 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He only started to relax when he was out on the stone-chip drive and walking away from the house . |
| 22 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
| 23 | Estates like ours were out on the urban edge , the new boundary between town and country . |
| 24 | 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 . |