Example sentences of "[pers pn] be on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm on the earlies in the morning now . |
| 2 | If I 'm on the earlies , right ? |
| 3 | ‘ I would do a work-out on the pitch before the match but when the games starts I 'm on the sidelines , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I was on the terraces until five years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ He actually told me I was on the streets and told me Brian owed all this money . |
| 6 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 7 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 8 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 9 | I was on the skids , now I 'm doing all right . |
| 10 | I remember once I was on the steps of a hotel in Liverpool , and a middle-aged woman wearing a maroon coat came up and said , ‘ Hey , George , you know I 've always loved you , could I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My son , ’ said Alex , ‘ you are on the horns of a dilemma . ’ |
| 12 | SUCH is the alarming speed with which pop trends are assimilated into the mainstream these days that one moment you can be an underground guitar hero from Seattle , next you 're on The Clothes Show . |
| 13 | Remember the next time you 're on the fells it 's up to us — only we can prevent the hills from vanishing , so watch where you 're putting your feet . |
| 14 | If you 're on the premises today , you 're coming , Security has its orders , on all the gates . |
| 15 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 16 | Well as daft as it seems Dennis as you probably know in this sort of game you 're on the roads very late at night and when you 're on the roads very late at night , you get a lot of bored policemen |
| 17 | But it 's not too bad if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no delays to report . |
| 18 | But it 's not a bad evening if you 're on the trains or the buses , I 've no trouble to tell you about at all . |
| 19 | You 're on the divisors , strimmers and and we 're on cutting our lot |
| 20 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , if you were on the railways we 'd get free tickets wherever we wanted to go . ’ |
| 22 | Even in the worst hours she never gave any public impression that she was on the ropes . |
| 23 | Yeah , she was on the titles , was n't she ? |
| 24 | There she was on the stairs now . |
| 25 | Here we are on the hills , and it 's no better . |
| 26 | But now we 're on the flats , no . |
| 27 | Are there any other suggestions for possible works while we 're on the arrangements and the programme ? |
| 28 | ‘ Which means , ’ Trish said patiently , ‘ that we 're on the books until the party ends . |
| 29 | They got the feeling that we were on the ropes and I , I mean if |
| 30 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |