Example sentences of "be [pron] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 2 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 3 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 4 | Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof . |
| 5 | But I was gon na tell you about there was one day I was at for money and I 'm coming up the road , and here this chap was standing in the road and er kind of thumbing a lift , so I says to him , I stopped and I often lift people in the road but er after he got into the , I had an old Bradford van at the time , and he said er , I said to him , I says , are you on a hiking holiday ? |
| 6 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 7 | Are you on a diet ? |
| 8 | You say , " Are you on the Pill ? " |
| 9 | Which you what er are you on the pill ? |
| 10 | Number One : Are you on the run from the law ? |
| 11 | Are you on the school bus tonight ? |
| 12 | And are you on the telephone there ? |
| 13 | Are you on the phone ? phone ? |
| 14 | Are you on the phone ? |
| 15 | And are you on the phone there ? |
| 16 | I said who are you on the phone to ? |
| 17 | ‘ Are you on the way up to join them ? ’ |
| 18 | " Are you on the way to metalwork ? " |
| 19 | I do n't wan na think too much about ‘ This is weird , Mark ; you 're solitary , you write about hating people , so why are you on the stage singing ? ’ |
| 20 | Are you on the side of progress , or just plain old protest for its own sake ? |
| 21 | Here is here are you on the earth the moon is up in space and the sun is over there . |
| 22 | ‘ Are you on the paper 's graduate trainee scheme ? ’ he asked . |
| 23 | My question is to , that er , police officer or to the Chief Constable , or to anybody who can answer , how much is it gon na cost that , for that paper to be produced , and would it not be better spent in putting a police officer in Stratton St Margaret , where there has n't been one on the beat for the last six months , to help us reduce the number of er , of crimes committed in Stratton . |
| 24 | ‘ Are we on the mend ? ’ , |
| 25 | Hi there are we on the air ? |
| 26 | ‘ Rex , ’ Laz whispered through his fingers , ‘ are we on the roof yet ? ’ |
| 27 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 28 | And our service was so good to hospitals , , that they 'd be somebody on the table well where 's the bit ? |
| 29 | We have n't had any disasters yet , but there must be one on the way . |
| 30 | ‘ There should be one on the table . ’ |