Example sentences of "[pers pn] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ardneavie House is big — at least ten bedrooms — and Lucinda and Jane and me are on the top floor with the boat's-crew Wrens . |
| 2 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 3 | The half of them are on my rent-roll anyway . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ When the chief comes into court , the two of them are on nodding terms . ’ |
| 5 | How many of them are on the drier river terraces ? |
| 6 | ‘ There are lots of priests at Manchester United , ’ he said in typical Docherty style , ‘ and some of them are on the board . ’ |
| 7 | Half of them are on it anyway . |
| 8 | Some of them are on display in the billiards room which we converted into a little museum , but others are stored in 2,000 indexed cardboard boxes . |
| 9 | More than 13,000 works were submitted this year and 1,800 of them are on show . |
| 10 | Some of them are on a bigger level . |
| 11 | As we have seen in Chapter 3 marginal farmers engaged in sheep and beef cattle rearing dominate the upland areas , and many of them are on a ‘ deferred death sentence ’ . |
| 12 | Scores of them are on show in a unique exhibition . |
| 13 | Nearly a hundred of them are on parade at Huntercombe , three miles from Wallingford . |
| 14 | But most of them are on television , the rugby league , then are they ? |
| 15 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 16 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 17 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 18 | I been on a train with the school once — we went to the seaside and I cut my toe . |
| 19 | I been on a boat once with the school . |
| 20 | It will also answer your two questions — why Van Gelder and I are on the wagon and why the six survivors have been — well , locked up out of harm 's way . |
| 21 | I dare not go to again but there is a Tie Rack where Werewolf and I are on a promise with the girls serving there . |
| 22 | ‘ And you and I are on it together , Lily . |
| 23 | ‘ I am on my own , ’ said Jay . |
| 24 | You know how I am on Fridays . |
| 25 | I am on a swing in a small park with my brother . |
| 26 | His notebooks show him hesitating between reminiscence ( ‘ It was exactly eight years ago ’ ) and testimony during trial ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell everything ’ ) . |
| 27 | Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion . |
| 28 | In August I had a job , now I am on a shortlist . |
| 29 | By the time I am back in the tent I am on the borderline , cold enough to wake Tony with disjointed movements . |
| 30 | Probably when I am on the bus I am sitting in someone 's special place . |