Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have be [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 2 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 3 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 4 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 5 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 7 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 8 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 9 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 10 | One practice we have followed for some time in mid-week housegroups is to follow up and apply further what has been taught on Sunday . |
| 11 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 12 | Ever since I can remember I have been going on demonstrations . |
| 13 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 14 | And any hope Laura might have had of at last having that ‘ long talk ’ which Ross had so faithfully promised her had been dashed on opening the front door of the apartment . |
| 15 | When she objected that she should n't be sent back empty handed , she was shown what had been written on her requisition . |
| 16 | We can see what has been written on our medical records after November 1991 — but have no right to the earlier information . |
| 17 | Your lord may even find it diverting , as well as enlightening , for he must have been wondering what had been laid on his doorstone . ’ |
| 18 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 19 | Mr. Speaker : I am sure that the Leader of the House has listened carefully and will have noted what has been said on this important matter . |
| 20 | If systems are developed without the involvement of the users , they may be unwilling to accept the new systems because they feel they have been imposed on them . |
| 21 | The prosecution also claims the men produced false alibis , not realising they had been captured on police video at Streetshome on the day of the alleged raid , the case continues . |
| 22 | A COOKSTOWN man appeared at the local magistrates court yesterday charged with handling £4,500 worth of cigarettes and cigars knowing them to have been stolen on April 27 last year . |
| 23 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 24 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 25 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 26 | Depending on personal preference , the user can scan the print-out for errors or amendments needed in wording or layout or , without printing the document , can view what has been written on screen . |
| 27 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 28 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 29 | Saunders , whose penalty winner was his first league goal in almost two months , revealed he had been put on the spot by colleague Ray Houghton . |
| 30 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |