Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [verb] be on " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The bordello of which I talk is on the Rue la Boutie under the charge of Madam Edith . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | . Erm we 've had one attempted well one arson attack in the the period which we 've been on the flats . |
4 | he said in all that , we got two he said the other one cut itself badly this morning on er a piece of glass obvious he said managed to come back to me you know being on a lead all his leg was cut so he sort of been down to the vet and had two stitches |
5 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
6 | Everything you need is on one level . |
7 | everything they need is on the result table over there |
8 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
9 | It it had been on the agenda before . |
10 | He he 's been on everything here . |
11 | 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 ? |
12 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
13 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
14 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
15 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |