Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was on the greens that Lyle continues to suffer . |
| 13 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |
| 14 | ‘ It was on the moors , ’ said Mrs Monro , laying down her spoon with a decisive air . |
| 15 | No , it was on the titles . |
| 16 | It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He wrote and told me it was on the cards . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was on the cards for ages , so it was really only a question of making it official , ’ he explained . |
| 20 | It was on the cards that he should be drawn into the circle of dissent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I thought it was on the cards ( Barnsley possibly ? ) during close season ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She did n't want to be caught up here or to have to pass whoever it was on the stairs . |
| 26 | Hell , that was the wrong phrase — or maybe he was on the streets ? |
| 27 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 28 | By the time Fred was 16 he was on the books of Aldershot and had played in friendlies against the Army and Clapton Orient . |
| 29 | In a 13-year career he was on the books of Crystal Palace , QPR , Southampton , and Birmingham City . |
| 30 | Sometimes he was on the Numbers 8 and 9 routes , which went all the way down to Granton Square . |