Example sentences of "[is] on the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's on the way here . |
| 2 | So he could n't keep it going any longer and he had to give it up , so he 's on the dole again . |
| 3 | We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there . |
| 4 | It 's on the aisle now at seventy pounds . |
| 5 | Of the Persil soap powder offers that enabled two passengers to travel for the fare of one and of the utter complexity of offers and restrictions that taxed the ingenuity of many booking clerks and ticket collectors until the Blue ( cheaper ) and White ( all Fridays and occasional other days ) Savers were standardised as BR 's on the whole highly successful marketing tool against coach competition . |
| 6 | This record shows that it 's on the rise again . |
| 7 | Well that was on a Tuesday I believe the letter 's on the desk there . |
| 8 | but it 's still is it 's on the road again I think |
| 9 | He knew that I had always stopped and got off if there was anything else on the road — and that was back in wartime remember — so he said that with the sort of traffic that 's on the road now I would never be on for getting off ! |
| 10 | I have , but it 's on the road now you know |
| 11 | Might I take the liberty of reminding Sir that Sir 's favourite programme 's on the air soon ? |
| 12 | And he 's on the phone again . ’ |
| 13 | it 's on the top there . |
| 14 | It 's on the computer though , I think we can manage |
| 15 | And he 's on the telephone since . |
| 16 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 17 | Shereen what 's on the menu tonight . |
| 18 | Right , things we 'd like to see in psychology Is there any I mean any the trouble is you do n't know what 's on the menu so it 's hard to but I mean what sort what sort of things would you like to have seen from pr what you have a ? |
| 19 | On a day in autumn Ruth told her aunt , ‘ They say the cholera 's on the wane now . |
| 20 | The blasted thing 's on the blink again . |
| 21 | ‘ The confounded generator 's on the blink again . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's on the navigation there this very minute , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 24 | Yeah so it 's , it 's on the floor just just chuck it over there . |
| 25 | ‘ This chap 's on the show tonight . |
| 26 | That 's on the list here . |
| 27 | first What do you think , I 'll do the in a minute , that 's on the list so . |
| 28 | And he 's on the game now . |
| 29 | And said , who 's on the plane then ? |
| 30 | Make sure that hip 's on the side then |