Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] on [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 3 | I was lucky , I was on the second floor ; Ana was not so lucky . |
| 4 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 5 | She was on the second line . |
| 6 | She was on the last mouthful . |
| 7 | Twice weekly she went to Bath to meet Edward , though ever afterwards he made sure she was on the last bus home . |
| 8 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |
| 9 | We were on the fortieth floor of the UN Plaza . |
| 10 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 11 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 12 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 13 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 14 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 15 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 16 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 17 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 18 | It was on the first tape . |
| 19 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 20 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 21 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 22 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 23 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 24 | He was on the first train into London and founded the earliest Railway Magazine in 1835 . |
| 25 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |