Example sentences of "be [indef pn] on the " 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 | There are plenty on the sample but that is to show how they can be built up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There will be someone on the staff at your antenatal clinic who can explain what benefits you can claim . |
| 6 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 7 | And our service was so good to hospitals , , that they 'd be somebody on the table well where 's the bit ? |
| 8 | And on , in the next paragraph there 'll be something on the Maoris , and on the next one something on the Australian Aborigines , and so on . |
| 9 | We have n't had any disasters yet , but there must be one on the way . |
| 10 | ‘ There should be one on the table . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If I was any of those people , ’ Ellie concluded , ‘ I 'd want to be one on the steamer , would n't you , Mr O'Hara ? ’ |
| 12 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 13 | There just does n't seem to be anything on the , on the horizon . |
| 14 | Apart from there being nothing on the walls , there 's very little of the personal here considering that she 's lived here six months . |
| 15 | And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's nothing on the radio . |
| 17 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 18 | " There 's nothing on the file . " |
| 19 | There 's nothing on the telly is there ? |
| 20 | There 's nothing on the . |
| 21 | That film on again Well and truly into summer now are n't we , there 's nothing on the television at all . |
| 22 | But there 's nothing in there to say it 's from there 's nothing on the box to say it 's . |
| 23 | Retiring in 1961 , there is no-one on the current staff who worked closely with Ralph but to give a flavour of his long life two articles are recreated below . |
| 24 | Many schools would like to offer drama lessons , but often there is no-one on the staff to take them . |
| 25 | If you find that the list of ‘ do n't likes ’ is very long and there is nothing on the other side to counteract it , you are not telling the truth . |
| 26 | There is nothing on the face of section 76(2) ( b ) to indicate that it is exclusively concerned with confessions obtained by police misconduct . |
| 27 | WHEN the future of the country is uncertain , when your football team is going down , when half the nation 's cricket eleven is injured , when there is nothing on the television positive thinking is required . |
| 28 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 29 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 30 | Now today there are two people working one or two , there 's somebody on the door somebody o o o on the bar because we get fifty people into the club often now . |