Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The fear of abandonment and being on their own was stronger than the discomfort of the existing situation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , and Barry and we have a lot of table and be on there ! |