Example sentences of "be [verb] on [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 2 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 3 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |
| 4 | At Ford , where workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand , the feeling was that car tax should have been scrapped much sooner . |
| 5 | However , they lost no money as , while the dispute lasted , they were paid on special time rates . |
| 6 | They 've told her she 's had three years more than what she should of had , she 's living on borrowed time , but , erm , she said the ho er |
| 7 | THE Government is living on borrowed time , Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown warned . |
| 8 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 9 | These , however , have to co-exist next to real lulus like , ‘ Being a mole I felt as if I was living on burrowed time . ’ |
| 10 | A Leaders ' Training class was attended by Edith Harlow and Hermine Burg who helped to keep some classes going to LONDON and Dagenham throughout and after the war , while Molly was engaged on full time war work . |