Example sentences of "[be] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 2 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 3 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 4 | You say , " Are you on the Pill ? " |
| 5 | Which you what er are you on the pill ? |
| 6 | Number One : Are you on the run from the law ? |
| 7 | Are you on the school bus tonight ? |
| 8 | And are you on the telephone there ? |
| 9 | Are you on the phone ? phone ? |
| 10 | Are you on the phone ? |
| 11 | And are you on the phone there ? |
| 12 | I said who are you on the phone to ? |
| 13 | ‘ Are you on the way up to join them ? ’ |
| 14 | " Are you on the way to metalwork ? " |
| 15 | I do n't wan na think too much about ‘ This is weird , Mark ; you 're solitary , you write about hating people , so why are you on the stage singing ? ’ |
| 16 | Are you on the side of progress , or just plain old protest for its own sake ? |
| 17 | Here is here are you on the earth the moon is up in space and the sun is over there . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you on the paper 's graduate trainee scheme ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 20 | ‘ Are we on the mend ? ’ , |
| 21 | Hi there are we on the air ? |
| 22 | ‘ Rex , ’ Laz whispered through his fingers , ‘ are we on the roof yet ? ’ |
| 23 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 24 | And our service was so good to hospitals , , that they 'd be somebody on the table well where 's the bit ? |
| 25 | We have n't had any disasters yet , but there must be one on the way . |
| 26 | ‘ There should be one on the table . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’ |
| 28 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 29 | ‘ Had you seen me then , as I left your hotel , when I gave into that need to kiss you — be it on the cheek , I 'm sure you would have thought ‘ poor Ven ’ . ’ |
| 30 | Entering into consciousness — an obscure phrase — meant trying to be oneself on the canvas , without the props of a single familiar reference , and thus to be free of rhetoric , history , convention , other people , safety , the past . |