Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double . |
| 2 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 3 | Lindsey came on and sat in for a couple of numbers and really enjoyed being back on the boards with us lot . |
| 4 | SunSoft claims many SCO Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature amongst the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up on the operating system . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’ |
| 6 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 7 | Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no . |
| 8 | If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter . |
| 9 | Alejandro , having been out on the bat the night before , returned at breakfast time with the pallor and red eyes of a white rat . |
| 10 | I loved being out on the sea — it felt much more like ‘ real ’ sailing than being on a lake . |
| 11 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 12 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 13 | This particular day Tom Smith had been out on the drink the previous night and now had a sore head and a filthy mood on him . |
| 14 | In the meantime the others had been out on the track and found the footprints of the Friar and the distinctive mark of his staff . |
| 15 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 16 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 17 | They 've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract ! |
| 18 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 19 | Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been out on the West Coast where everything 's mellow and laid-back , ’ says Julian , when I ask for his first impressions of NYC . |
| 21 | Not so surprising , as this is their first official demo , though the group members ( all two of them ! ) have been around on the scene since 1988 . |
| 22 | Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race . |
| 23 | Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race . |
| 24 | It 's been out on a Christmas LP , among lots of other songs , every year for six years running . |
| 25 | But , like if it 's been out on the deck , the only things off the deck that they can save , is like Ratatouille , they save that , erm , and like but it 's unused |