Example sentences of "[pers pn] was on [pos pn] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , over a tandoori dinner , I was on my second lager , and something , I do n't know what , got into me . |
| 2 | It was a nightmare , anyone reading the papers would think I was on my last legs . |
| 3 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 4 | This girl looked as if she was on her first assignment , as she sat with pencil poised over her shorthand notebook . |
| 5 | She was on her second cup of tea when Harry blundered into the house like some evil giant out of a fairy story . |
| 6 | Mother did all the cooking as well , and there was a problem in that department too because our oven was going home — that is to say , it was on its last legs — even before the war . |
| 7 | ‘ It looked as though it was on its last legs when you gave me a lift yesterday . ’ |
| 8 | It was on our third run . |
| 9 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 10 | And indeed , the habit had grown up of issuing acts of revocation well after the minorities were in practice over , at the age of twenty-five ; James V was so scrupulous on this point that his was announced in Rouen , where he was on his twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 11 | One abiding memory for me was on my first visit to his home in 1965 . |