Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must of been on holiday or something , cos tha , that 's the only reason I would n't of gone , if I , if I was n't in the country . |
| 2 | Oh I must of been on holiday dad , with the girls or something . |
| 3 | Must of been on one of the other computers and er it went on for ages and it was you know it 's was irritating more than anything ! |
| 4 | now that tape that 's in now , tt , there 's a little bit at the front of that and it 's been on , oh it must of been on a fortnight and it does n't matter what you record |
| 5 | well it might of been on Radio Times , but |
| 6 | Built in 1903 it has bronze and marble panels in an Art Nouveau style depicting the friars from the monastery that used to be on the site . |
| 7 | It 's that picture of a cat that used to be on Marie 's wall . |
| 8 | D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you . |
| 9 | So it hardly matters that Connery lives mostly in Marbella , that his residence for tax purposes , used to be on Paradise Island in the Bahamas and is now an apartment in Monte Carlo , although he still has the place in the Bahamas . |
| 10 | ‘ I used to be on the school lunch programme , you used to have free lunch in the schools , you know , then they wiped that out . |
| 11 | I mean they were n't badly Me father at th er at the beginning of the war he worked he worked at the Grove pit , down the mine at the Grove and he used to be on afternoons . |
| 12 | Where 's the ray-gun gone ? ’ she asked , looking to where it used to be on the side wall . |
| 13 | And we used to do these er pictures that u used to be on er grey and blue paper and we used to , with white paint we used to make a sort of anything there and then with erm charcoal sticks we used to draw on it . |
| 14 | And then then there used to be on Boulevard . |
| 15 | And we used to have what they call er a stick and goos it used to I remember we used to have sti what you call stick and goos It was like a great long thing like that and you used to have a stick and it used to be on the floor and you just tap it and and hit it like that and it goes |
| 16 | " I used to be on the stage myself , " said Grace , " a long time ago . |
| 17 | No I did n't cos I was on , I used to be on a oil card delivering paraffin oil round the countryside and then cos I used to stink apparently and then I got this job at er on a pushbike |
| 18 | Besides , do n't you remember how lonely you used to be on your own ? ’ |
| 19 | The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to . |
| 20 | In those days Leeds used to be on telly quite a bit but of course there was not the coverage of every game as now . |
| 21 | Gary Ventress , who used to be on Sunderland 's ground staff , has moved from Whitburn and should add stability to Murton 's early batting order . |
| 22 | Oh yes , oh yes , oh mum went there for years and years every Saturday yeah , and as I say the wagonettes used to erm be stationed up by Albion Street , to take er shopping and , and er and Rushbrooks used to be the big confectioners then , that 's on the , it used to be on the corner of erm Albion , well there 's a market there , an indoor market now is n't there yeah they were the er the big confectioners Rushbrooks , and er bakers and confectioners and er all the barrels of flour used to be , you could see all that going in you know but er I do n't know whether it is , am I making it interesting , is it interesting for you ? |
| 23 | HE 'S mean , he 's moody , he used to be on The Tube and he can play the piano . |
| 24 | She 's over there because she used to be on the erm |
| 25 | Twelve , thirteen , yeah cos he used to be on ten at the old place and he gets about two thousand more |
| 26 | Do you remember that George and Mildred used to be on telly in comedy ? |
| 27 | That 's the the four colours , used to be on the |
| 28 | Cos what it does , it remembers tools tool holes that used to be on there . |
| 29 | I remember the Carpenters used to be on here you know . |
| 30 | I mean , it used to be on a Friday , then it used to be on a Saturday , only sometimes like I used to watch it . |