Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that , everything about him , his bearing , his voice , the cold of horror that was on him , for he shook as he spoke of it , all rang true to me . |
| 2 | Vic has eaten his two slices of toast and is on his third cup of tea and first cigarette of the day when Marjorie shuffles into the kitchen in her dressing-gown and slippers , a scarf over her curlers , her pale round face puffy with sleep . |
| 3 | Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively . |
| 4 | His elder daughter , heir to the throne , was just twenty-five years of age and was on a trip , with her husband , Prince Philip , to Kenya , so they hurried back to London . |
| 5 | The fear of abandonment and being on their own was stronger than the discomfort of the existing situation . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | On the Buckinghamshire section of the M25 clockwise traffic at junction 16 with the M40 is still very heavy and slow due to the amount of traffic that is on the M25 this evening , most places along 25 are quite heavy . |
| 8 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 9 | Well , and Barry and we have a lot of table and be on there ! |