Example sentences of "was [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all a far cry from June 1987 when Margaret Thatcher was returned to power with a handsome majority of 101 seats , although it was down on the 1983 win . |
| 2 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 3 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |
| 4 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |
| 5 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 6 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 7 | She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch . |
| 8 | The portrait of Melusina hung above the fireplace and this year 's cat calendar was up on the left-hand wall . |
| 9 | Harris , his coachman , was up on the driving box , while Lord John 's groom and valet were bringing on the saddle horses behind . |
| 10 | After the second course he was back on a normal diet , gaining weight rapidly . |
| 11 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 12 | That famous stain was back on the front steps . |
| 13 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 14 | The third race , for the Campkin Cup , was back on the open sea in light conditions . |
| 15 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 16 | I rang the doctor , hoping he would suggest transferring her to Tewkesbury or Evesham , but he was out on a coronary emergency , so I had to wait . |
| 17 | In fact , in this case the unit was out on a CDL trial with quite inadequate documentation — the only documentation we had at that time was such that we were frightened to show it to the teacher because we realized that it would ‘ finish him off ’ . |
| 18 | Unless either of us was out on a noon-time assignment Fred Workman and I usually had lunch together at Mrs Pete Stewart 's Bakery & Lunch-Room on Main Street , just down the back lane from the Times ' Building . |
| 19 | Pilkington talked to Dr Richard Newman , who was out on an early morning call , on the Thursday . |
| 20 | It was a fact Adrian Warburton was out on an early air test prior to a sortie in AR735 . |
| 21 | The short pole was now out of the question so it was out on the long pole . |
| 22 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 23 | He only started to relax when he was out on the stone-chip drive and walking away from the house . |
| 24 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |