Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 2 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 3 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 4 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 5 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
| 6 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 7 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 8 | you certainly wo n't be getting it on the following Monday |
| 9 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 10 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 11 | The Three Choirs vineyard is making an English equivalant of Beaujolais Nouveau , and is launching it on the French market . |
| 12 | Erm you go down a bit of a lane and it 's gets you on the through road does n't it ? |
| 13 | The aim with 78018 is to use her on the former Stockton and Darlington , Stanhope and Tyne Wear Valley routes which are used for summer Sunday pacer trains and cement traffic to Blue Circle 's Eastgate Cement Works the current limit of the line . |
| 14 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 15 | hundred quid 's putting it on the light side . |
| 16 | I was surprised to hear you have a fear of drowning , but I do n't expect that is bothering you on a big ship . |
| 17 | Jaguar is offering them on every new model and Audi is said to be phasing out its Procon-Ten safety system in favour of driver's-side airbags . |
| 18 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 19 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 20 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |