Example sentences of "[prep] be on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , you 'll have to sort of be on your best behaviour ! |
| 2 | and I know la well some time when retirement was looking on the on the horizon I was saying to him you 're not alone but , you know , you 've got ta be looking towards being on your own because of course |
| 3 | She found herself talking too , drawn by some required exchange of confidences and a dislike of being on her own , discussing the gardens , the weather , other people 's dogs , safe everyday subjects , in the way she made conversation at parties to people she had n't met before . |
| 4 | Her pregnancy thankfully gave her a little relief from the enormous output normally expected of her , and her stay with the Franklins was a welcome respite from the boredom and loneliness of being on her own , as she wrote on 9 January : |
| 5 | The blow was almost as great for John , who had begun to enjoy a family background after years of being on his own or part of a split family . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , in the calmness of being on his own , that all this is just trendy nonsense ? |
| 7 | I hated the idea of being on my own . |
| 8 | After so many years of being on my own I really do n't want to settle down and commit myself to a relationship . |
| 9 | In The Ring his pride in being on his own had met with confusion and Isaac and Seth , too , seemed to challenge what he wanted , what he believed in , how he lived — though understandingly enough , he knew . |
| 10 | She do n't want to be on her own , even at night , so what I done was drag my mattress and sleeping bag into her room , and that 's where I 'm sleeping now — on her floor . |
| 11 | She preferred to be on her own in a kitchen . |
| 12 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 13 | I would have liked us to share a house but your mother preferred to be on her own . ’ |
| 14 | She did n't much like to be on her own . ’ |
| 15 | These days she sought out excuses to be on her own . |
| 16 | The contest got under way — a series of knockout bouts inexorably leading to the final pair and , after seeing Richard — and Tom — win their opening bouts without much difficulty , she wandered away , suddenly keen to be on her own . |
| 17 | If she went anywhere it would have to be on her own two feet . |
| 18 | She just wanted to be on her own so that the lava of tears could flow unchecked , melt it all away . |
| 19 | Besides , somehow she did n't want to be on her own with her troubling thoughts . |
| 20 | She was n't in a fit state to be on her own . |
| 21 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 22 | She had to get out of here , had to be on her own for a while , had to sort out the confusion fogging her brain . |
| 23 | Secretly Leonora was relieved to be on her own . |
| 24 | She needed to be on her own . |
| 25 | there 's no need for her to be on her own , I mean there 's a bus stop right at door |
| 26 | Use only our own girls and warn them to be on their best behaviour . |
| 27 | There 's a flower bed of sorts over by the fence but the flowers look to be on their last legs , as far as I can make out . |
| 28 | For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together . |
| 29 | Her mother was becoming suspicious at the amount of time she spent in her room , but Lizzie had told her everyone liked to be on their own at times . |
| 30 | Long acquaintance with the clergy had convinced him that priests could not tell one layman from the next if they happened to be on their own administrative staff . |