Example sentences of "they be on the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 2 | We do n't know whether they 're on , they 're on the first , second or third ? |
| 3 | " It 's quite easy — they 're on the next floor down . |
| 4 | girls they go shopping like but they always got another carrier did n't they until they got sold and then when er they 're on the next road from their house like take the carrier and it 's all for her . |
| 5 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 6 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 7 | The Rye are proof that this idea works : they were on the first tour two years ago and are now probably the hottest property in the region . |
| 8 | Well one of them 's on the second one , and one 's on |