Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They must think I 'm on the way out . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 3 | ‘ I THOUGHT I was still standing and then I realised I was on the floor . ’ |
| 4 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 5 | How do you know I 'm on a diet ? |
| 6 | ‘ I would do a work-out on the pitch before the match but when the games starts I 'm on the sidelines , ’ he says . |
| 7 | Oh yes , you say I 'm on a diet , they say oh well you have lost a lot of weight then . |
| 8 | ‘ how do you know you 're on the side |
| 9 | Do you know you were on the verge of rank insubordination ? |
| 10 | Say you 're on a a green right up that green , eight hundreds . |
| 11 | ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’ |
| 12 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 13 | If one says that they are both in the second row you will know they are on the two n's of nomen . |
| 14 | ‘ We do not definitely know they were on the flight but it is very unlikely they were not , ’ said Mr Beswick . |
| 15 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 16 | Simon , yesterday , denying he was on the prom at all . |
| 17 | I did n't know it was on the , it was on the T V today , said it was very good . |
| 18 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 19 | No idea just see expect it 's on the notices or send a . |
| 20 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 21 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 22 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 23 | He wanted his fans to know he was on the mend . |
| 24 | Unless they say he 's on the bottle . |
| 25 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 26 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 27 | No boats to Ballachulish for Glencoe but I island-hopped instead up Loch Linnhe and walked the roadless east coastline of Lismore pretending I was on a boat . |
| 28 | Stewart from Tamworth says I 'm on the dole and have to pay maintenance , Prince Charles should be doing the same . |
| 29 | When they were privatised I was on the Opposition Front Bench and did the job so well that I am no longer there . |
| 30 | Relax deeply , then imagine you are on a grassy riverbank . |