Be on
Be on verb - Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
- Expect them to be on an unknown location where authorities try to be on the margin of things and raids every once in a while.
Source: Not-So-Safe Harbor -
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: You, the player, will be on both ends of this if you try to play multiplayer, thanks to the game's broad arsenal of barely-controllable weaponry.
Source: Video Game / Daikatana - Even when the player is the darkest they can be on a Genocide playthrough, Papyrus still thinks they can be good if they really try.
Source: Big Ego, Hidden Depths
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