Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [be] on " in BNC.
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1 | She 's been on the sauce for years . |
2 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
3 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
4 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
5 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
6 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |
7 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
8 | gone with the , the , from the college there , she 's been on an art course and they 're going round er , art galleries and museums and places like that |
9 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
10 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
11 | She 's been on holiday . |
12 | I mean because she 's been on the |
13 | eh ? mm she 's been on the phone , they 've rang Blackpool now , gon na get back |
14 | The subtitles are superfluous : it 's been on the telly umpteen times and the gestures say it all . |
15 | It 's been on the television news and it 's all over the papers this morning . |
16 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
17 | It 's been on Wish You Were Here . |
18 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
19 | It 's been on the radio for hours . ’ |
20 | It 's been on my mind since Bruges . ’ |
21 | I do n't know how long it 's been on the bed , but it 's far too damp to sleep in . |
22 | ‘ It 's been on the Common looking for little green men has it ? |
23 | It 's been on T. V. now , destroying some of my mental scenery for ever . |
24 | Erm that in fact er whether it 's been on board accurately by the report er or not is , is a matter for er question , but it was something that they bore in mind when they where reaching their conclusion , so they believe that they have taken it into account . |
25 | Well it 's been on er consumer selling |
26 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
27 | It 's been on the drawing board for some time now but has n't gone ahead because of lack of investment . |
28 | It 's been on the cards for so long I think everyone 's had enough . |
29 | It 's been on several days recently . |
30 | It 's been on the floor ! |