Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | aye but I mean some of them are on this Committee as well I mean Wendy and I for a start erm so that would be good right let's try and give that one a |
| 2 | I have no doubt that there are many colleagues more expert than I am on this subject already planning their drafts ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm on this milk shake diet , and it 's really working . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm on this occasion I 'll keep as close to this as I can possibly go . |
| 5 | ‘ May I come in here : I 'm on this scheme for tonight . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My broken engagement to Miss Sandra Bamfield is part of the reason I 'm on this side of the ocean , I guess . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I know I wo n't keep doing it at this rate but while I 'm on this streak I 'll take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 8 | I had a paper to say and they said there was too much money coming in here a week , because you were working that I could n't get anything and I , it said , I wrote , it , it all come when I wrote to say could I have relief off of prescriptions cos I was on that H I V at the time |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And it 's frightening , but I , I mean , I know from my days at British Telecom , I 'd say I was on that phone , really |
| 11 | And they thought I was on that plane blown up . |
| 12 | I was on that plane . |
| 13 | I was on all day and I , it did n't come off until about four o'clock |
| 14 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 15 | I was on this side of consciousness , just , feeling very sick , with a huge head . |
| 16 | I was on this planet . |
| 17 | Last time I was on this programme I think we had the same conversation , did n't we ? |
| 18 | then I was on this roller and then we got er started up at the power station with the |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , you are on another planet . |
| 20 | If you are on half pitch , the prongs come up against the ribber sinker posts , so ca n't move in so far . |
| 21 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 22 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 23 | See where you are on this chart . |
| 24 | First you are on this case , then you are off . |
| 25 | Is it strange going thousands of miles away to Australia and finding out that you 're as known there as you are on this island ? |
| 26 | You know once you 're on that system you 've got to have a light one and a heavy one |
| 27 | Wh while you 're on that madam chairman , I 've had two persons er contact me as regarding , you know playing field and er it 's a no go for dogs is n't it , and th and we therefore the people have mentioned they had to go down the side of the playing field onto the onto the old , and er have we an obligation to er to pave not pave it but er make it , it 's a very steep bank , a very steep old ladies dare n't go down , and they know they 're breaking the law by taking the dog in the in the er recreation ground , and I just wondered whether we had an obligation to er . |
| 28 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 29 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 30 | Second year you 're on another assignment anyway so it does n't make no repeat . |