Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm singing on one track , I think , in the background … very quietly ! |
| 2 | I think if you were to analyse what I play , I 'm landing on one of those three notes a lot , mostly on the third ; I play a lot of third-based melodies . |
| 3 | I 'm working on 12 single figures all based on the apostles , the last series of paintings was very much more bathers . |
| 4 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 5 | I 'm going on eighty-two now , you know . ’ |
| 6 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 7 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 8 | I was born on 2 April 1960 in St Andrews in Kingston . |
| 9 | I was born on 2 January 1893 , the third son of Frederick Louis Wilder , F.C.S. , M.I.M.M. , who , at the time , was an assayer in the City . |
| 10 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 11 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |
| 12 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |
| 13 | If you are dieting on 850 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 450 calories a day . |
| 14 | If you are dieting on 1,500 calories a day , you can choose meals adding up to 1,100 calories a day . |
| 15 | If you are dieting on 1,250 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 850 calories a day . |
| 16 | If you are dieting on 1,000 calories a day , choose meals adding up to 600 calories a day . |
| 17 | ‘ And you 're concentrating on three sites : Belmodes , Rose Hilaire 's flat , and my house in Mouncy Street ? ’ |
| 18 | Oh she 'll be like a little old woman , she 's , well she 's nine , I think she 's going on thirty nine , to listen to her |
| 19 | ‘ She 's sleepin' well an' she 's put on two pounds . ’ |
| 20 | She was acquitted on 17 counts of murder but admitted manslaughter during the trial which dramatically collapsed when the INLA bomb gang threw in the towel and changed their pleas . |
| 21 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 22 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 23 | Then she was dumped on one end of the table and given a dab of butter to taste , and , soon , a lump of dough to squeeze , roll into little grey spindles on the floury table-top . |
| 24 | Between the study and the library was the small spiral staircase which led directly to the Emperor 's apartments , a staircase she was to climb on 3 September 1870 , clutching in her hand the telegram announcing the capitulation at Sedan and crying out in grief at the horror of it . |
| 25 | She was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs , knees together , her hands wedged between them . |
| 26 | After this , God and the Fifth Monarchists sent her to Cornwall to preach , until she was arrested on 23 March 1654 , and imprisoned in Plymouth , then Portsmouth , and finally Bridewell in London , accused of witchcraft , madness , and whoredom . |
| 27 | I du n no what we 're doing on one of them . |
| 28 | So we 're waiting on two fronts in a sense . |
| 29 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 30 | ‘ We were caught on one foot with our fingers in our mouths , ’ said one dealer , referring to widespread expectations of a hung Parliament . |