Example sentences of "[pron] was on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on the terraces until five years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ He actually told me I was on the streets and told me Brian owed all this money . |
| 3 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 4 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 5 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 6 | I was on the skids , now I 'm doing all right . |
| 7 | I remember once I was on the steps of a hotel in Liverpool , and a middle-aged woman wearing a maroon coat came up and said , ‘ Hey , George , you know I 've always loved you , could I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 8 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 9 | Yeah , she was on the titles , was n't she ? |
| 10 | There she was on the stairs now . |
| 11 | All the shops were shut and no one was on the streets except the shouting women . ’ |
| 12 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |
| 13 | In October Bassingbourn had become the home of 231 ( Mosquito ) OCU and 237 ( Meteor ) OCU and it was on the Meteors that the initial staff work-up was done , the first Canberras did not arrive until the following February . |
| 14 | It was on the greens that Lyle continues to suffer . |
| 15 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |
| 16 | ‘ It was on the moors , ’ said Mrs Monro , laying down her spoon with a decisive air . |
| 17 | No , it was on the titles . |
| 18 | It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple . |
| 19 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 20 | He wrote and told me it was on the cards . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was on the cards for ages , so it was really only a question of making it official , ’ he explained . |
| 22 | It was on the cards that he should be drawn into the circle of dissent . |
| 23 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 24 | I thought it was on the cards ( Barnsley possibly ? ) during close season ? |
| 25 | The actual information you quote my Lord was n't known to me erm it was on the cards certainly and all this information was passed to Superintendent . |
| 26 | Finally , as regards the poll tax , it was on the grounds that disabled people should be treated as ‘ normal ’ citizens that the government rejected the Allen amendment in the House of Lords , which would have offered extra rebates to poor disabled people to cover the full cost of poll-tax payments wherever they may live . |
| 27 | She did n't want to be caught up here or to have to pass whoever it was on the stairs . |
| 28 | Hell , that was the wrong phrase — or maybe he was on the streets ? |
| 29 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 30 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |