Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
| 2 | If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ? |
| 3 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 4 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 5 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 6 | Projects of this sort certainly do not call for an elaborate cost-benefit analysis ; resources should be assigned to them on the basis of a simple ‘ back-of-an-envelope ’ analysis or an informed subjective decision . |
| 7 | She might be growing to detest the man more with every passing second , but she doubted there was a woman alive who could deny his sheer male beauty , or fail to be drawn to it on the most basic level . |
| 8 | There 's other information which will be shown to you on the on the er training school . |
| 9 | Poll Tax benefit forms will be sent to everyone on the Register towards the end of 1989 . |
| 10 | This can not be logical , and there is some support for landlords who feel justified in requiring the proceeds to be paid to them on the basis that a lease is for a limited duration but the freehold ( where applicable ) is for life . |
| 11 | Guidelines have been issued to them on the point at which they must desist from the chase because of danger to the public . |
| 12 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |
| 13 | You , you were listening to it on the radio . |
| 14 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 15 | Being sick can bring with it a degree of sympathy and attention that is greatly valued by more isolated individuals , and they may believe that if their health improves they will lose out on the time and attention that is given to them on the basis of their illness . |
| 16 | This clause relies upon the ticket cases discussed above , ( see particularly Parker v South Eastern Railway , ante ) If such clauses are to stand it is vital that attention be drawn to them on the face of the order , and wording for this purpose is also provided at the commencement of Precedent 2 . |
| 17 | but it 's now erm , if the phone rings and he picks it up ah , er and he 's talking to someone on the phone someone else tries to ring |
| 18 | Er it was explained to me on the phone . |
| 19 | When Blanche and Dexter arrived he was mumbling to himself on the side of the bed , hands clasped in the lap of his dressing gown . |
| 20 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 21 | After The Tyger 's Whelp put in at the harbour at Liamuiga , also known as Everhope , the winter after the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , the letter from the King in England to Kit was delivered to him on the verandah of the Great House at Belmont , by the captain , one Rowland Grasscocke , who was plying a regular trade between England , the West Coast of Africa and the Hesperidean chain . |
| 22 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 23 | Yes , well , as a matter of fact er , the moderator was talking to me on the telephone |
| 24 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 25 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 26 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 27 | If I was talking to you on the street and you had asked me where such-and-such a street was , that was all right . |