Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her materials consist of marble dust , gypsum cement , resins and rhoplex , but the ways in which she works with them are based on a kind of body language , using gestures that are related to her subject matter . |
| 2 | Pretty much the same at the moment because I 'm I 'm sat on a couple of bills for Salford Council who I 'm sure can afford it for the moment . |
| 3 | if I 'm put on a ladder with a television set then forget it , because |
| 4 | I 'm put on a murder case . |
| 5 | In the afternoon , I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh , an ex-student of ours from Lancaster . |
| 6 | ‘ I was raised on a farm , ’ she said , and she took the duck from Angelica and efficiently flipped it upside down and twisted its neck . |
| 7 | Well , I was bailed on a charge of fraud but I feel they 've got something else up their sleeve . |
| 8 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 9 | I was put on a slab and all my clothes cut off me . |
| 10 | Saturday , 27th : In the morning , I was accompanied on a shopping expedition by ( Lecturer , CIEFL , ex-Lancaster student ) . |
| 11 | He 's making it sound as if I was stretched on a couch , locked in a room with a ‘ Do not disturb ’ sign on the door while Sir Matt , the doc and a priest I have certainly never met , got to work straightening me out , socially , medically and religiously . |
| 12 | I was left on a piece of ice that was becoming smaller all the time . |
| 13 | A telegram arrived saying I was booked on a flight the next day , to be filmed at Pinewood Studios for the title sequences of the James Bond film ‘ A View to a Kill ’ . |
| 14 | 25 You are shipwrecked on a desert island with these birds . |
| 15 | This ingenious device ensures power is switched off whenever the bulb is removed so there 's no risk of electrocution — a comforting thought when you 're balanced on a stool , fitment in one hand and replacement bulb in the other . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you 're set on a course of self-destruction , that 's why , Lizzy . ’ |
| 17 | now let's erm just go on to something perhaps that 's more to the point , you were asked on a number occasions er what information was given and so for and when , er can you see in fact on some of these documents that the brochures are indeed dated ? , just look at er please , you can see that it 's a printed brochure it 's got a number of er additions and then we look at page thirty seven boldly state you have that as twenty sixth March eighty five , do n't you ? |
| 18 | Like Graham , she was hoisted on a platform at her school . |
| 19 | He presented the case for deporting Emma Goldman , feminist and anarchist , and sailed out into New York harbour to taunt her when she was loaded on a troopship bound for Russia . |
| 20 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 21 | She was rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital , where she was put on a life support machine . |
| 22 | Ten minutes later she was relaxed on a bed with a cannula attached painlessly to her right arm , taped in place near the soft inner crook of her elbow . |
| 23 | We were camped on a sand and gravel plain with the road running north–south , fifty yards from us to the east . |
| 24 | There are times when this is quite acceptable , such as for street interviews or music recording , but they are not suitable for drama unless they are mounted on a boom . |
| 25 | The fact that many works in this category may be produced directly on a computer before any other tangible form exists presents no serious problems because these works will exist , in terms of copyright protection , the instant they are recorded ; that is , as soon as they are stored on a computer disk or printed out on paper . |
| 26 | Dogs may be brought into the park provided that they are kept on a lead at all times . |
| 27 | — Provided they are kept on a lead at all times , dogs are welcome in the grounds but are not allowed in The Bird Garden . |
| 28 | Bolt throwers work well if they are positioned on a hill or facing an open line of advance , preferably behind a hedge or a wall . |
| 29 | Everybody accepts that awards of damages in this field are necessarily conventional , and that they are based on a scale of comparative seriousness which is also conventional . |
| 30 | They are based on a refinement of the natural movements made by the bones and joints when activated by the muscles , tendons and ligaments found in any human body . |