Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] on [art] [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 | Two of them are shown on the right with their lines of symmetry drawn . |
| 3 | I am tapped on the head by innumerable vice presidents , given a small raise , taken to the opera by the client , and sent to Hong Kong for the signing of the loan . |
| 4 | Well , I 'm joined on the line by Audrey . |
| 5 | great big towers which are painted an off white colour , an' I 'm featured , an' I 'm featured on the front of a very famous album by Pink Floyd . |
| 6 | I 'm wanted on the phone , and then I have a long-standing business lunch and a couple of other appointments . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm wanted on the ward , ’ she said breathlessly . |
| 8 | I 'm up here and I 'm perched on the ledge |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | if I 'm put on a ladder with a television set then forget it , because |
| 11 | I 'm put on a murder case . |
| 12 | I was hit on the leg and the wrist and knocked to the floor . |
| 13 | I was followed on the platform by a self-confessed cynic who poked clever fun at my talk and finished by saying ‘ … and anyway , Bob Geldof is naff ’ , as if the only relevant criterion for judging his contribution was one of personal taste and style . |
| 14 | In the afternoon , I was conducted on a shopping expedition by from Alligarh , an ex-student of ours from Lancaster . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I was informed by a normally respectable member of the Gwili Board that I was wanted on the telephone in the shop . |
| 17 | I was paralysed on the canalside , mid pen stroke , sketching the boat for the skipper , then running towards the stern where the young man was swimming for his life out of the narrowing gap . |
| 18 | Mr Leonard , who lives in central Darlington , said : ‘ I was cut on the head and pushed to the floor several times . |
| 19 | I felt I was poised on the edge of something bigger and more unknown than anything I had encountered in life , and the mystery of what was about to happen added to the attraction . |
| 20 | On 8 May , about 8 o'clock in the morning , I was seated on the doorstep of my house . |
| 21 | Long before dawn , I was propped on an elbow , with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans . |
| 22 | Well , I was bailed on a charge of fraud but I feel they 've got something else up their sleeve . |
| 23 | I was sat on the couch and when I woke up , ten to three . |
| 24 | Still encased in the net , I was dropped on the ground as if I were an old plank . |
| 25 | ‘ That was the same night I was crouched on the pool table getting all the fellas to aim their shots between my legs , ’ she laughs . |
| 26 | ‘ However , I went for a second opinion , and I was put on a scan . |
| 27 | I was put on a slab and all my clothes cut off me . |
| 28 | I was put on the road with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they thought I was getting too big for my DMs , but they were real wild men and I liked them a lot and we got on very well . ’ |
| 29 | I would say from the point where I was told on the radio that the officers were entering the premises to the point where I was told everybody was secured , could not be more than four five minutes . |
| 30 | I was caught on the square-leg boundary for … 96 . |