Example sentences of "[pers pn] be on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm on the bloody black one ! |
| 2 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 3 | well my birthdays on the twenty sixth twenty seven , last year I was on the twenty six , I was twenty six |
| 4 | My Lord Mayor , my Lord Mayor , I started by saying how angry and dismayed I was on the twenty fourth of July . |
| 5 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 6 | We 're on the dear old elevated section of the M4 where lorries are so apt to break down when there 's a call for McDunn ; he takes the handset , listens and sucks his teeth for a bit , then says , ‘ Thank you . ’ |
| 7 | These hamlets were mostly called Winterbourne in 1086 , and distinguished by their separate owners-they were on the probable former royal estate of Winterbourne , possibly centred on Winterbourne Stoke ( Fig. 15 ) . |
| 8 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 9 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 10 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 11 | It 's quite true that er wheels from subsidiaries in Dagenham and bodies would be on the road inside two hours of having left another factory because they were on the same industrial site . |
| 12 | I know , but it 's on the twelve hundred . |
| 13 | Eh yes it 's on the twenty eighth Saturday , twenty eighth of September , now that 's a Saturday immediately after our W I holiday . |
| 14 | He 's on the early next week . |
| 15 | It was on the biggest floating pontoon that was available and they towed it out into the lagoon in Venice , stuck a couple of pirate flags on the top and it was like a floating city seething with roadies ! |