Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 2 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 3 | A LOT OF the enquiries that we get are on the lines of ‘ will a Series III such and such from a LWB fit my SWB Series II ? ’ |
| 4 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 5 | They stated firmly : ‘ the key to equality of opportunity , to academic success and , more broadly , to participation on equal terms as a full member of society , is good command of English and the emphasis must therefore we feel be on the learning of English . ’ |
| 6 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 7 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 8 | . Erm we 've had one attempted well one arson attack in the the period which we 've been on the flats . |
| 9 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 10 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 11 | we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been on the road since yesterday morning and Patrick drove a thousand miles of that — mostly at a hundred and fifty m.p.h . |
| 13 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
| 14 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
| 15 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |
| 16 | We have been on a trip to Cliff College in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |