Example sentences of "we [verb] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |
| 2 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 3 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 4 | We 'd been on the bit of fast dual carriageway between Dumbarton and Alexandria , not long after Verity and Lewis had picked me up . |
| 5 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 6 | A LOT OF the enquiries that we get are on the lines of ‘ will a Series III such and such from a LWB fit my SWB Series II ? ’ |
| 7 | We 've been without a Marshal nearly four months — not that I ca n't cope , but you know how it is when half the boys we get are on National Service and by the time you 've begun to knock them into shape they 're ready to leave . ’ |
| 8 | Before it was built we were very much under stress , because the church where we recorded was on a flight-path into Berlin , so we sometimes had to stop and re-record a passage five or six times before we got it right . |
| 9 | They stated firmly : ‘ the key to equality of opportunity , to academic success and , more broadly , to participation on equal terms as a full member of society , is good command of English and the emphasis must therefore we feel be on the learning of English . ’ |
| 10 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 11 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
| 12 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
| 13 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 14 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 15 | . Erm we 've had one attempted well one arson attack in the the period which we 've been on the flats . |
| 16 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 17 | Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription . |
| 18 | We 've been on Hold too long . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been on the road since yesterday morning and Patrick drove a thousand miles of that — mostly at a hundred and fifty m.p.h . |
| 20 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 21 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |
| 22 | You 've never had those before , not even when we 've been on tour . ’ |
| 23 | All this week we 've been on expedition with the British team as they tackle the Camel Trophy through Brazil and Guyana . |
| 24 | Well they have n't done it , that with us , we 've been on the thirty days and just no |
| 25 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 26 | we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little |
| 27 | It fenced up security-wise and everything else so we 've been on it overtime and and painting and decorating and getting the |
| 28 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 29 | The problem at the moment is , we 've been on Word Processor up to now , but the designer is designing a programme at the moment , so I do n't have a programme to show you because it 's with the designer , erm all we 've got is the diary , that we 're kind of like again on the word processor , that we 're producing tonight . |
| 30 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |