Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am on friendly terms with a dog who is intoxicated with the pleasure of travelling in motor cars . |
| 2 | For I am on equal terms with someone for the first time in my life . |
| 3 | In fact I 'll give my neighbours who live opposite , I do n't see a lot of them but they they are my opposite neighbours and of course the 's really I 'm on good terms with I ought to give them I 'll get them a tin of biscuits as well . |
| 4 | I 'm on reasonable terms there . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm on five goals now and I 'm happy that the onus is on me and Ally McCoist to score on Wednesday . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm on three days ’ leave but I wanted to get my report done . |
| 7 | Heather and I were on friendly terms by then . |
| 8 | Although Margaret knew I would not support her , I was on reasonable terms with her-so much so that during the battle for the Leadership I attended her constituency annual dinner and dance as guest of honour . |
| 9 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 10 | Suddenly I was on first names terms . |
| 11 | I was on 1,000 grams of that a day , now I 'm on 187 , so although I 'm still on medication it 's a very minute amount of medication to what I was on before , and I 'm existing on that , so for me it 's worked . |
| 12 | Before the op I was on 1,000 milligrams of the Dopramine drug a day , which is what the brain is lacking , which is substitute the drug for , which is . |
| 13 | ‘ It was fine while I was on weekly wages . |
| 14 | Again , you are on subjective grounds , but by just about any objective industry standard , Trantec are doing themselves a disservice paying for full pages for those ads . |
| 15 | thin ground I think you 're on dangerous grounds adjusting the formulations are n't you without |
| 16 | S. H. When you join the job , you 're on two years ’ probation . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're the only two guests , so if you 're on separate floors it means you 've each got your own bathroom . |
| 18 | You 're on various bits and bobs , and you 're also on the cream . |
| 19 | You 're on three days are you , or what ? |
| 20 | It 's if you 're on enough books to be able to get supply for every day , if you do n't mind just flitting around . |
| 21 | Lucky you 're on opposite sides of the room . |
| 22 | Now she 's on powerful drugs to suppress the problem … and she only has to cope with a one or two fits each day . |
| 23 | having the flu , near a fortnight ago now , she 's on these pills and she 's as bad as ever , and not sleeping again . |
| 24 | Flavia thought , She 's lost face because it has come out that she is on Christian-name terms after all with Therese . |
| 25 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 26 | She was on friendly terms with most of the leading horticulturalists of the time , and was able to provide Charles Darwin [ q.v. ] with a number of rare plants . |
| 27 | Thank heavens , she was thinking , that she was on good terms with Kirsty 's teacher . |
| 28 | At the time she was on six months ' leave from WWF International 's Swiss office , where she heads the conservation news service and edits WWF News . |
| 29 | She much preferred to take a cab in to the centre of town when she was on these assignments . |
| 30 | She was on domestic routes and we often met up , like in Seville . |