Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [be] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The powerboat world has been left high and dry this summer by a big red boat named Flippin Shytalk … its call sign is P69 … the only number that reads the same upside down … but the Oxfordshire crew that run and race her are on the very top of their sport at the moment … |
| 2 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 3 | But , once again , let me be on the positive side because I mean there 's no doubt about it there are firms which are doing extremely well in spite of recession at the moment , and they are training people as well , but they 're not training in numbers we really need when we go across the patch as a whole . |
| 4 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 5 | But the figures show we are on the right track . ’ |
| 6 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 7 | It is that sort of falling-together that reassures you are on the right lines . |
| 8 | She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime . ’ |
| 9 | I know I 'm on the right route when I spot a bus marked ‘ Pensioners Touring Kerry ’ . |
| 10 | There 's no panic , because Gloucester know they 're on the right track and tomorrow at Kingsholm , West Hartlepool will probably find themselves rail roaded . |
| 11 | I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object , not painting it . |
| 12 | I knew I was on the wrong track when the tall reeds broke to reveal the brown-bellied river . |
| 13 | ‘ D' you reckon we 're on the right track , Geoff ? ’ |
| 14 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 15 | With a slow erotic motion , she slid her smouldering twat up and down his pulsating shaft , until she knew he was on the very point of ejaculation . |
| 16 | I thought it was on the right hand side as you went into village . |
| 17 | I thought it was on the main road ? |
| 18 | Thinks he 's on the wrong ! |
| 19 | ‘ I think you 're on the wrong track there , mate , ’ sniffs Granville . |
| 20 | No , I think you 're on the wrong track . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not saying Eddie 's incapable of violence but in this case I think you 're on the wrong track . |
| 22 | Well I think we 're on the right , on the right side of it . |
| 23 | We need not doubt that the epithet is justified and I think we are on the right track in attributing its powers to nerve cells with their trigger features and projective zones , but the connecting links are missing . |
| 24 | We would like to think we 're on the right road to producing a successful senior line-up . ’ |
| 25 | no he 's not here , I think he 's on the sick . |
| 26 | I think he 's on the sick . |
| 27 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 28 | ‘ I said we 're on the wrong road . |
| 29 | Michael , I suspect , considered himself to be on the losing side and probably wished he was on the winning side . |