Example sentences of "[prep] be on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce Reynolds and Buster Edwards were eventually senetnced after being on the run in Mexico . |
| 2 | They drank the Coca-Cola and Timothy consumed the Worthington E , saying it was just what he needed after being on the sauce the night before . |
| 3 | There 's always the pressure of playing , of course , and the dangers of being on the road and playing the songs night after night — it 's all too easy to fall into some kind of rut . |
| 4 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things . |
| 5 | A restless excitement stirs in him , a sense of being on the verge of deep and different things … |
| 6 | The road has only recently come to Uçagiz ; the whole area emanates a powerful feeling of being on the edge of the world . |
| 7 | What kept her from coming down to bathe and witness the enjoyment her child got out of being on the seashore ? |
| 8 | Whereas for me the rigours of the Second World War meant two ounces of butter a week and five inches of bath-water , for Jean-Claude they had involved near-starvation on a diet of turnips — and the dangers of being on the run . |
| 9 | Life had several appearances of being on the mend . |
| 10 | Erm and they will want the prestige of being on the golf club and quite honestly , the golf club card , and quite honestly so does the golf club want |
| 11 | There is a sense of being on the boundary of management vis-a-vis workers . |
| 12 | Currently , by virtue of being on the rota of solicitors , the advocate has undergone self-evaluation whereby he indicates publicly that he is competent to deal with criminal matters . |
| 13 | The idea of the New has always been a crucial part of pop 's rhetoric : the idea that the future is going to be a improvement on the past ( that sixties ' feeling of being on the brink of a whole new order , the beginning of an endless breaking down of barriers and limits ) . |
| 14 | Perhaps that is the luxury of being on the pay-roll of a monopoly subsidised by the Government ? |
| 15 | If David Cork carries on playing like that , then he could be looking at a new contract instead of being on the transfer list . |
| 16 | Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is . |
| 17 | The impression is one of being on the roof of the world . |
| 18 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 19 | Strachan is in the squad with rumours of being on the bench and Pemberton is being given his debut cos Jon Newsome is still out . |
| 20 | Erm been tending to concentrate on specific things which you know stand a good chance of being on the paper , and even if they 're not will help you with others . |
| 21 | What they do have , though , is a still-blossoming talent and an evident euphoric thrill of being on the stage . |
| 22 | Accord him the honour of being on the front of the 40th birthday issue . |
| 23 | But , in the longer term , it promises to move the specialist closer to the levers of power , which have often eluded his or her grasp , leaving a sense of being on the periphery of events . |
| 24 | What 's it like being on the road with your mother ? |
| 25 | I mean they all say they understand what it 's like being on the dole and that , but they do n't . |
| 26 | Like being on the edge of the world . ’ |
| 27 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like being on the rack . ’ |
| 29 | It came into being on the groundswell of the earlier federalist enthusiasm , while still being sufficiently limited and pragmatic to be deemed feasible by senior politicians who themselves were keenly interested in fostering moves towards greater and effective cooperation . |
| 30 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |