Example sentences of "[pers pn] is on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see he 's so unlucky that his is on all play . |
| 2 | ‘ Yours is on your desk . ’ |
| 3 | Here 's yours , yours is on the radiator Richard . |
| 4 | Yours is on eight . |
| 5 | My report has to be on Ken Hurren 's desk before theirs is on the Prime Minister 's screen . |
| 6 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 7 | Her actions are unquestionably deedy ; they bear no theoretical burden , unlike Kirillov 's suicide ; they run deeper — while she is on the job — than the paper person in her , and they make a rigid , final opposing of the profane midwife and the God-seeking husband academic and quite inadequate to the novel . |
| 8 | She is on the floor playing with the family dachshund . |
| 9 | We can read into Las Meninas such a view of the Habsburgs ( Fig. 8 ) : Philip IV and Mariana are merely reflections , living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe ; a tiny princess dressed as an adult with a skirt so stiff it makes her look as if she is on wheels , surrounded by curtseying maids , a dwarf , a midget , a huge dog with the ability to sleep through anything , and a great artist , aloof and all-powerful . |
| 10 | ‘ All I can tell you at the moment is that she is on the danger list . |
| 11 | She was due to have lunch with Miss Morgan last week apparently — she is on the phone , I looked . |
| 12 | I 'm sure it wo n't be long before she is on the most popular chat shows , telling us of commissions she has undertaken and regaling us with tales of her life when she was actress Delia Abraham , co-starring in the TV version of Nell Dunn 's Up The Junction , and appearing in rep alongside Kate O'Mara . |
| 13 | Tomorrow 's Europe must have a Bill of Rights and a Thatcher Carta , she cried , despite being about as keen on a Bill of Rights for Britain and a Social Charter for today 's EC as she is on workers ' soviets |
| 14 | She is on a constant diet . |
| 15 | She is on the Speaker 's panel of chairmen for Commons committees , so has experience of the chair . |
| 16 | Germany wants all the European currencies at her feet , and she is on the point of abusing her dominant position . ' |
| 17 | Margaret befriends some of the workers and shows compassion for their sufferings , but when the crunch comes she is on the side of the master . |
| 18 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 19 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
| 20 | Here she is on Pascal , her nine-year-old Irish draught cross thoroughbred mare . |
| 21 | Lesley 's niece , Beverley Spencer , 18 , said : ‘ She is on a life support unit but you can talk to her and she can flicker her eyes in response but that is about it . |
| 22 | But on a more general level we need to realise that the church is not down and out because she is on the privatised and peripheral margins of society . |
| 23 | She is on her way to the art gallery that she runs , where she will be presiding over a private viewing later in the day . |
| 24 | She is on her way to visit a patient , or teach a group of school children . |
| 25 | A playground supervisor is a guardian while she is on duty , acting with authority , keeping an eye out for trouble , intervening before tears or blood are shed ! |
| 26 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 27 | Christine certainly needs a lot of physical stamina as she is on her feet all day long . |
| 28 | Now she is on the verge of the Big Adventure . |
| 29 | As long as an MP declares he or she is on the take these payments somehow are deemed acceptable . |
| 30 | With this last push Penguin is building her up for HarperCollins to take over , for she is on the move . |