Example sentences of "but [pron] be on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't catch me with heroin actually , he caught me injecting coke , but I was on heroin at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'm on holiday ! ’ |
| 3 | They did n't charge me , but I 'm on police files . |
| 4 | Yeah but you 're on cloud nine . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't expect he liked it , darling , but you are on holiday , and though it was very naughty of that boy to risk ringing you from a ward , you can scarcely be held responsible . ’ |
| 6 | So as a result to that , there , there erm , there is going to be a public meeting on the tenth September , which is actually organised by the Labour party , erm , but obviously the who thing very worried about the attendance at that , erm the , have , had to organise it very quickly because he wants to get it in before the sixteenth , we 'll still trying to get erm a National speaker , I 'm hoping that Julie from the er , eh National Help Federation will be able to come , but she 's on holiday till Monday erm , I do n't . |
| 7 | yeah but she 's on Invalidity though |
| 8 | It gets a bit crowded when Camilla 's boyfriend is here , but they 're on holiday at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | We were on poor money , but they were on 15p a day . |
| 10 | But he 's on GMTV . |
| 11 | The obvious choice of the opposition was the Count Palatine Henry , a Welf , but he was on crusade and so Duke Bernard of Saxony was considered and elected . |
| 12 | I just wanted to say to you , firstly I declare an interest in OxRad , not pecuniary , of course , with money , however , but it is on behalf of charities , it is the only way they can generally raise some two three hundred pounds in a day , or sometimes a little more , that is a tremendous help to charities . |
| 13 | Mind you do n't your tongue with that I tell you what they had in er Woolies market as well , I do n't know whether you 've seen them and I do n't , I 've not got you know an old Argos catalogue to compare prices , cos they 've not got it in the summer one , but they have them in the winter ones , it 's like a , a tool box , but it 's on wheels and you make it up , you , you know all the screws and the wheels come out and you 're not , it 's all plastic , I think it must be from age three , because of the little bits , and it 's like erm , I 've seen it somewhere , where I 've been , it has little figures sat in this erm , what would you , it 's like erm , a bit like a truck , yeah , and it 's got the , the figures in it |
| 14 | Well it 's a drop in the bucket in one sense , but it 's on top of what we 're already doing with our Children 's Services , which are very good quality services now in the County . |
| 15 | But it 's on spelling and presentation . |
| 16 | It 's in your name but it 's on behalf of the club . |
| 17 | Tanagra tried to replace Thebes as informal hegemon of the league in mid-century , but it was on Thebes that Sparta 's plans centred in the First Peloponnesian War . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , but it was on fire at the time . |
| 19 | But it was on days like these that one longed for a friend , hoped for a caller . |