Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 2 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 3 | ‘ Which means , ’ Trish said patiently , ‘ that we 're on the books until the party ends . |
| 4 | They got the feeling that we were on the ropes and I , I mean if |
| 5 | The commander view would say that the superannuation fund balance sheet should be consolidated : the authority is responsible for managing the fund , although it is on the employees ' behalf not the community 's . |
| 6 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 7 | If I 'm on the earlies , right ? |
| 8 | If you 're on the premises today , you 're coming , Security has its orders , on all the gates . |
| 9 | But it 's not too bad if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no delays to report . |
| 10 | But it 's not a bad evening if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no trouble to tell you about at all . |
| 11 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , if you were on the railways we 'd get free tickets wherever we wanted to go . ’ |
| 13 | A bad tendon strain in Aldaniti 's off-foreleg had to be fired , and he was on the sidelines for eighteen months . |
| 14 | In October Bassingbourn had become the home of 231 ( Mosquito ) OCU and 237 ( Meteor ) OCU and it was on the Meteors that the initial staff work-up was done , the first Canberras did not arrive until the following February . |
| 15 | I ca n't wait until it 's on the shelves . ’ |
| 16 | And Mark , definite cos it 's on the papers , it 's on the books ! |
| 17 | And tab tablets sometimes do n't touch that see cos it 's on the nerves . |
| 18 | I do n't know if , but it 's on the cards that one could . |
| 19 | But it was on the greens that Willie came into his own . |
| 20 | I see people being frightened just because they 're on the streets . ’ |
| 21 | Are there any other suggestions for possible works while we 're on the arrangements and the programme ? |
| 22 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 23 | The studio door slammed behind us when we were on the stairs . |
| 24 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 25 | What when he 's on the drugs , some of these painkillers ? |
| 26 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 27 | Living as he was on the borders of his lost paradise , in the limitless landscape of childhood from which he had been banished into adulthood , an uncomfortable country , I sensed that Jean-Claude was continually grappling with the feeling that his present was a poor reflection of his past . |
| 28 | Though the streets of this city were solid , their buildings numbered and named ; though the avenues were bright enough , even at night , to banish ambiguity , he still felt as though he was on the margins of some unknown land , and in danger of crossing into it without realizing he was even doing so . |