Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 2 | I mean being on my own , travelling down here the way that I did . |
| 3 | I hate being on the Social . |
| 4 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 6 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 7 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 8 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 9 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 10 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 11 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 12 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 14 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 15 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 16 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 17 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 18 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 19 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 20 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 21 | There is in fact such a car outside , but the siren I hear is on my son 's hi-fi in the next room . |
| 22 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
| 23 | Where it 's not quite so good I feel is on her face . |
| 24 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 25 | The figure I gave was on erm sites which were allocated |
| 26 | I just need er , some that I think are on level five and some of them I think are there |
| 27 | Well Boris Yeltsin this morning has said that he wants a veto over the use of nuclear weapons and about ninety percent of which I think are on Russian soil , that perhaps can be interpreted , additional safeguard to have another veto . |
| 28 | Right , the general point I think is on cost and consultation . |
| 29 | I 'll do this end as well I think be on the safe side . |
| 30 | You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time . |