Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had not been schooled in the symptoms of such abuse , but she told reporters that the abuse of children was such a terrible problem in society , that everyone should be on the look-out for it . |
| 2 | I was n't nervous , but I might be on the night . |
| 3 | Sometimes I cough , as if I might be on the verge of tears . |
| 4 | Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ? |
| 5 | If I do n't see their names in the overnight declarations on Friday afternoon , I 'll be on the blower to the News of the World before you can say ‘ flagellation ’ , right ? |
| 6 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 7 | No , no , they complain to us because so does the secretary , I mean they 're all very nice , they know us and they like us , talk to them when we go there , but any sign of a noise , somebody I 'll be on the phone to me . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be on the veranda , Tom , ’ she murmured , and he and his sister both nodded . |
| 9 | I 'll probably miss the last shuttle , but I 'll be on the breakfast plane . |
| 10 | This time I 'll be on the CHRIS PARKER show ! ’ |
| 11 | I 'll be on the alert . ’ |
| 12 | I 'll be on the plain before the city gates . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's no substitute for playing games so it may be I 'll be on the bench . |
| 14 | There is no reason to be sitting in bed , but I never thought I 'd be on the go so quickly . |
| 15 | I mean I know that now because I never thought I 'd be on the scrap heap , but sometimes I really do feel as if I am |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd be on the beach sunbathing and he 'd be sitting there in a suit , collar and tie and black shoes . |
| 17 | If it were n't for this job creation scheme I 'd be on the rubbish tip |
| 18 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 19 | And the next fortnight I would be on the afternoon shift , which meant getting the same distance , to half past two to work till They were eight hour shifts you see and the night shift likewise had to come a very er a tremendous number from working at the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham ev even in those days , travel from various places . |
| 20 | You wo n't be able to reply to this letter , as when you receive it I shall be on the water . |
| 21 | But as I shall be on the evening flight home … ’ |
| 22 | Ruth says : ‘ I 'm not nervous at the moment , but I will be on the day . |
| 23 | I might find that by then my days have altered and I will be on the Thursday . |
| 24 | This gives us one combination which must be on the LM curve : it is plotted as point C in graph ( d ) . |
| 25 | What you 've got to rea no what you got to realise is the most obvious place for somebody would be on the bed but we could n't see anybody on the bed so the only other place is under the bed . |
| 26 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
| 27 | And set it back to a , to a Panasonic K X P Eleven Twenty Four , which will be on the list . |
| 28 | Perhaps a real top class defender , ca n't think of who may be on the market tho . |
| 29 | It is wrong for a relatively well off professional person to do this with clients who may be on the bread-line . |
| 30 | ‘ You may be on the level about having done a runner , or maybe not . |