Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cedric Downes had himself been on the phone for about five minutes , trying frustratedly to contact British Rail about times of trains to London that day ; yet he could have had little notion of the irrational and frenetic impatience of the man who was trying to contact him ; a man who was betweenwhiles cursing the incompetence of British Telecom and bemoaning the cussedness of the Universe in general . |
| 2 | So if Teclis himself is on the battlefield , no other character may be equipped with the Sword of Teclis . |
| 3 | The night was organised by the Danish importer of Marshall , and Jim himself was on hand to sign jackets , books , T-shirts and just about everything . |
| 4 | Bellybutton gave one last look at the man walking along the dock , then shoved Starkisser 's tachometers way into their red zones so that the dark blue powerboat stood on her tail and screamed out to sea as though the devil himself was on her tail . |
| 5 | By now Henry 11 himself was on his way to the Limousin , following his sons in the forlorn hope of finding a peace formula . |
| 6 | Reginald de Grey himself was on the move , with a strong and well-mounted party in arms . |
| 7 | Mr Nujoma himself was on the border when the incursions began and is suspected of having ordered his men to move south . |
| 8 | The park itself is on land largely reclaimed from derelict colliery sites and slag-heaps . |
| 9 | As Ascension Day is always on a weekday , the passers-by on their way to work are able to enjoy the singing which , as the church itself is on very high ground , can be heard for quite a distance . |
| 10 | Hotel rooms will be smaller than their US equivalents , the park itself is on a smaller scale and , although plans are already being drawn up for Phase Two , incorporating a European MGM Studio theme park , the initial range of attractions wo n't rival Disney World in Florida . |
| 11 | From Muker by Ivelet and on to Gunnerside the dale is steep sided but pleasantly wooded while Gunnerside itself is on the site of an Old Norse settlement . |
| 12 | The whole Soviet record seemed to confirm the undemocratic origins of Bolshevik power in Russia : glasnost and perestroika suggest that the regime itself is on the point of admitting as much . |
| 13 | The hall itself was on the far side of a courtyard which could not be built upon as it had been the burial ground of the Quakers in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | A country that had once been central to itself was on the periphery : it needed to become central again . |
| 15 | He saw that the building itself was on fire . |