Example sentences of "i [verb] [be] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 2 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
| 5 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 6 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 7 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 8 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 9 | I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes . |
| 10 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 11 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 12 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 13 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 14 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 15 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 16 | Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well ! |
| 17 | I 've been on the railways all my life , eh ? ’ |
| 18 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
| 19 | Every waking moment I 've been on the watch — ’ |
| 20 | I 've been on the telephone to people ! |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I 've been on the road for three days . ’ |
| 22 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 23 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 24 | Sometimes I 've been on the verge , but then the reeling vanished . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been on the phone since nine o'clock this morning |
| 26 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been on the go all day . |
| 28 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 29 | I 've been on the receiving end enough times this season . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |