Example sentences of "was [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As before , the news was on . |
| 2 | Fuck , she 'd forgotten the World Cup was on . |
| 3 | I decided to go and see one of the Bond films which was on in a cinema at Leicester Square . |
| 4 | But the pips squeaked and still the remorseless pressure was on … and on , in a cool , impersonal style . |
| 5 | Then it was on to Switzerland and , finally , by road to Belgium . |
| 6 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 7 | Taff kept on talking , but I did not hear what he was on about . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 9 | By the look on his face he obviously understood what I was on about . |
| 10 | The light was on and Phoebe was sitting on the bed with Maggie 's arms wrapped convulsively around her , her scarlet and sparkling body thus partly hidden from her grandmother . |
| 11 | Magdalen , which had been Oscar Wilde 's college , always attracted a fair number of rarefied and aesthetic young men , and it was on to the path of this tradition that one of Lewis 's first pupils , John Betjeman , happily placed his bedroom-slippered toe . |
| 12 | Report author Jill Krutick said that in the meantime the race was on among the large hotel chains to achieve a pan-European presence with branded hotel products . |
| 13 | For the next picture , it was on with the stage makeup and into something a little more outrageous — Betty 's turn , in other words . |
| 14 | The next day it was on to Kalamazoo , Michigan , and family and community . |
| 15 | ‘ I mean , d' you think he got back from the mission he was on , ’ said Lee , putting his face right up close to the picture . |
| 16 | She 'd got it wrong , and he did n't know what she was on about . |
| 17 | If these did n't work it was on to the funerals — huge fantasy ones . |
| 18 | From there it was on to more readings . |
| 19 | The fourth day it was on to Stirling and a literary society . |
| 20 | Tom and Jerry was on , but with the sound turned down . |
| 21 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 22 | And if few found the work easy to like , most recognised that Koons was on to something brilliant . |
| 23 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 24 | The heat was on and , over the next 24 hours , posters proliferated alarmingly . |
| 25 | ‘ The roof was on but there was a lot of external brickwork to be done , ’ says Mem . |
| 26 | The Admirable Crichton was on at the Royalty , the Three Ragtime Boys at the Alhambra , and at A. E. Pickard Unlimited 's Panopticon ( Doors open at six during the Spring holiday ) , there was ‘ Fancy Fair and the Laughter Mirrors ’ . |
| 27 | From Hucknall it was on to Annesley where a large shed provided motive power for the famous Woodford freights known as ‘ Windcutters ’ or ‘ Runners ’ . |
| 28 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the hotel 's English radio programme from 6.30–7pm highlighted what was on . |
| 30 | Once the drip was up and the monitor was on I was much less mobile but as I gained confidence I learnt how to put the monitor back on if it stopped working when I moved . |