Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [is] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They say she is on borrowed time , ’ someone else said . |
| 2 | ‘ How do you know it 's on now ? ’ she asked carefully , and Ana turned over comfortably , smiling to herself . |
| 3 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 4 | No idea just see expect it 's on the notices or send a . |
| 5 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 6 | ‘ I expect it is on its way , ’ said the Thing calmly . |
| 7 | say it 's on its way , it 's on its way ! |
| 8 | ‘ Such a bore to find he 's on duty . ’ |
| 9 | Unless they say he 's on the bottle . |
| 10 | I 'VE heard of prisoners going on the run to prove their innocence , but here 's a prisoner who says he 's on the run to prove his GUILT . |
| 11 | The singer Frankie Vaughan says he 's on the mend , but lucky to be alive after a two-hour emergency operation . |
| 12 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 13 | Yes it says it 's on stamp albums . |
| 14 | The company produced 29,224 ounces of gold at an average grade of between 2.5 and 2.8 grammes per tonne , and says it is on course to mine 70,000 ounces during the whole of 1989 . |
| 15 | Well that 's what it says it is on the erm on the outside . |
| 16 | I bloody well hope it 's on Monday night cos I 've just arranged my entire work schedule around it . |
| 17 | It 's about Sam and then how he comes and arrives he 's on his way . |
| 18 | I do n't think she 's on here , we only had |
| 19 | Well you 've got your own little car seat for your doll , look it 's on the cupboard , up here , that 's your special one , is n't it ? |
| 20 | Gwendoline , I think , look it 's on her leg . |
| 21 | Place to hear it is on the highway . |
| 22 | She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , well she reckoned it 's on it lovely actually . |
| 24 | and he reckons he 's on a |
| 25 | Grandma used to always say , Oh I know she 's on the bus because I can see her here . |
| 26 | But when the time comes to leave , she ca n't help going in a showbiz way , negotiating the steps of the Ritz in her towering leopard-skin stilettos like she 's on the set of a Busby Berkeley musical . |
| 27 | I know it 's on the grapevine that there have been problems with the cars , but nothing 's ever been said officially . |
| 28 | So if he phones up I can say , you know it 's on its way as it were . |
| 29 | I know it 's on the eighth . |
| 30 | And I say let's get Terry Wilson to do it because you know he 's on the |