Example sentences of "[vb infin] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm , you know , with preparation beforehand I would normally have , have realized that , and anything else would 've been on top of it . |
| 2 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll enjoy being on the same pitch as Tony Dorigo , who is probably the best No 3 in the country for composure on the ball when going forward . |
| 4 | And in his present state of mind , I for one would not enjoy being on the receiving end of his temper . |
| 5 | Fishermen would never go out in a boat if anyone who could swim was on board , since the Fates might decide to give the man a chance to do so . |
| 6 | Those three hills we can see are on the big island . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na see been on nights , I 'm tired and |
| 8 | ‘ Ah , well , you see , Beryl does n't like being on her own in the house at night . ’ |
| 9 | She did n't like immobility , she did n't like being on her own , and she did n't like the fact that the wallet still had n't been given back to her , not when she 'd nicked it at great personal risk . |
| 10 | Do n't you like being on tape ? |
| 11 | ah well yes the passers by will will remember being on the road side the famous tramp . |
| 12 | I do n't even mind being on my own . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind being on my own , ’ said Philip . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you mind being on your own ? ’ |
| 15 | I do n't mind you know on camera , I do n't mind being on video , anything . |
| 16 | You do n't mind being on call around the clock ? |
| 17 | My first dream I can ever remember was on the first day of exams . |
| 18 | The first house that I can remember was on Road . |
| 19 | I should have been on my guard . |
| 20 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 21 | The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning . |
| 22 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 23 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 24 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 25 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 26 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 27 | It seems safe to assume that Jefferies , like Waterton , Buckland , Wallace , and Charles Kingsley , would have been on his father 's shelf . |
| 28 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 29 | Despite suggesting that God must have been on the side of the Philistines in the battle , they talk as if God is literally enthroned above the ark , and the bringing of it to the camp will mean the bringing of God himself . |
| 30 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |