Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These researches and others like them are based on innumerable hours of field study in remote places . |
| 2 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |
| 3 | Nowadays , I am consulted on all matters pertaining to him , and I feel my role is to make him better known . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most wonderful place on earth ( though I am told on good authority that the souvenir shop at Graceland takes some beating ) has to be Niagara falls . |
| 5 | If I sell my British Telecom shares , will I be taxed on any profits I make ? |
| 6 | Well that 's why now I 'm glad when I 'm come on this diet that I can fill his |
| 7 | But I 'm told on this day , May thirteenth , thirty seven years ago , and that should bring back a lot of memories for many of you , the Three-Ninetieth flew its hundred and fifth combat mission from this station and many of you remember that day . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , come to think of it , I was detained on urgent business with a Catholic . |
| 9 | I was born on central Island as I said . |
| 10 | After that came Sleetburn , where I was born on 1 August 1926 , which was owned by a William Hutchinson when we lived there . |
| 11 | I was born on 2 April 1960 in St Andrews in Kingston . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Each week I continued and with Molly and Peggy Secord as my first Medau teachers , I was hooked on this form of rhythmic movement . |
| 14 | Remained blissfully unaware till I was seated on this train to Lausanne that reservations and supplements were OBLIGATOIRE on all TGV trains , so I had to fork out about £12 as a result . |
| 15 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 16 | I had a bath , then had to wait to see this officer in charge , and because they read on my notes that I 'd barricaded , I was put on this wing like C1 . |
| 17 | I was put on light duties . |
| 18 | You know , there 's no point in wasting your time you know , logging everybody else , and you go to the boss , and you say , boss you know that personal management skills course that I , you said I should go on , so you proving what , you know , what a good person you are , because you 've remembered a month later what the course was called , erm , I , I was told on that course to keep an interruptions log , so you 're proving , you know , that you are a good person when you 've done this , and i see from this that a great deal of your valuable time is being eroded by my humble concerns , you know , something like that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Your task is a series of missions , each more perilous than the last , and you are briefed on each beforehand . |
| 21 | Yes you are put on tight . |
| 22 | That 'll , that 'll be as bad , now you 're sat on that box . |
| 23 | I suppose one reason we 've got on so well , May , is that you do n't go around resenting things and feeling you 're wasted on ordinary mortals . |
| 24 | But what I still do n't understand is , if you were schooled on this stuff , how do you know it 's wrong ? |
| 25 | As you were put on this earth for , to see to men 's needs ! |
| 26 | An ’ you were caught on this side of the fence , ’ he retorted . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's sleepin' well an' she 's put on two pounds . ’ |
| 28 | Membership of the Institute requires appropriate practical experience as well as the written exam , so it was a double success story that she was accepted on both counts . |
| 29 | She was determined on that . |
| 30 | 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 . |