Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in this theatre watching The Crucible ( no great significance about that , the Sixth Form had tried out their exam text on us ) only they were n't on a stage , they were up on tight-ropes , and it was our job as audience to keep them up there , and we did that by holding our breaths . |
| 2 | Yeah , they were swooping , they were up on you know across there , you know across erm er opposite there 's that house where th that has the garden at the bottom of ours . |
| 3 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 4 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 5 | ‘ What was that about then , ma'am ? ’ probed Dexter , once they were out on the pavement , puzzled by his chief 's foray into the kitchen . |
| 6 | Every week they were out on the streets of Highgate or Chalk Farm preaching , and Eva belonged to the cadet 's singing brigade . |
| 7 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 8 | When Lambert found Kimberley and Killion they were out on the field , looking at a map laid on the bottom wing of a plane . |
| 9 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 10 | They were out on the villa forecourt and Guido was loading the car , the same racy-looking open-top red Alfa Romeo that he had brought her to the villa in on the day of her arrival . |
| 11 | Look them two women up at Malden and , and , and the bloke came in and they were out on an extra |
| 12 | But they ( Yello ) did n't want that , and they were in on everything . |
| 13 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 14 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 15 | The Greeks did very little during the winter because of bad weather but each spring they were back on the water , checking that everything was nautika or boatworthy . |
| 16 | They were amber as she swung the car round to the right and through them , heading down a side street , taking another right then another until they were back on the street where they 'd started . |
| 17 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 18 | He definitely would n't kiss her now that they were back on this joking footing again . |
| 19 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 20 | Once they were back on the train there was yet more waving of handkerchiefs from pin-hatted ladies who would remain spinsters for the rest of their lives . |
| 21 | They were off on their seventeen years of Tristan and Isolde . |
| 22 | They were off on a collision course with the beaten snow , their equipment and one another . |
| 23 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
| 24 | They were down on the floor , and one side of her face was scorched by Gordon 's mother 's horrible gas-fire , in front of which there was a bowl of tepid water . |