Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 3 | At all times someone was on watch for aircraft , and the nearer the coast they were , the slower they tended to travel , to cut down the dust plume . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 5 | Of course I was on Sunday , yes indeed . |
| 6 | Of course I 'm on there |
| 7 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 8 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 9 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 10 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 11 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 12 | During the seven and a half months I was on C1 I went to Crown Court twice , and each time I got remanded back into Holloway . |
| 13 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 14 | Ladies and Gentlemen I will not waste your time by repr repeating my printed annual report to the Association which is on page four of your agenda papers . |
| 15 | The historian compiling a critical edition of Burnett , for example , requires text critical apparatus and thus tends to rely on software tools and computational methods which are on the whole developed by and for literary scholars . |
| 16 | The first the little report under the heading of faith and life , on page five of your reports the second is the report of the provincial advocate which is on page six and the third , the report of the Youth Secretary which is on page twenty . |
| 17 | Bulbs of the future which are on show include daffodils of the ‘ split corona ’ or ‘ butterfly ’ type with double cups so heavily ruffled as to obscure their identity . |
| 18 | a dangerous dog , as defined by section 1 of the dangerous dogs act 1991 , in a private car which was on a public highway was in a public place , within the meaning of section 10(2) of the act and was therefore required to be muzzled and on a lead as prescribed by section 1(2) ( d ) of the act . |
| 19 | I do n't know if any of you saw very recently , the horrific programme which was on television dealing with this problem in some of the London boroughs and god forbid if we ever reach that stage erm because it is quite horrific so I do think that although we have a problem , our problem is mainly confined to the weekend . |
| 20 | The thing is moulded under your eyes , and a recent book which has been very popular in the university Gödel Esher Bach which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got quite a long article on how the author actually organised all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it has obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 21 | I grabbed hold of the gravimetric to turn it round to look for the the switch which is on other side . |
| 22 | Even in the final agony on the cross , it is words from the Old Testament which are on his lips . |
| 23 | Every other group produces more sophisticated results than yours , your own results seem to vanish in the general feedback , and to cap it all she then shows you work which is more sophisticated than any of yours , probably containing a result which is on the A level further mathematics syllabus , and declares that it is work from mixed-ability 13 year olds ! |
| 24 | Do n't pass through , but turn left and follow the fence which is on your right until you reach a narrow green gate which lets you into the meadow . |
| 25 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 26 | The treaty has advanced Europe , but it is a Europe of nations which is on trial . |
| 27 | After the shelves have been weeded , all other books which are on loan from that section at the time of weeding should be screened on their return and subjected to the same process . |
| 28 | THANKS to all in Liverpool on behalf of the members of my Association who were on parade . |
| 29 | If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used . |
| 30 | There are many and varied ways of sensing who 's on the up ( and down ) in the Parliamentary Labour Party . |