Example sentences of "[conj] they have been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 2 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 3 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 4 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 5 | If there are to be company spokesmen involved in the filming , it is your job to make sure that they are there when they are wanted and that they have been briefed on what to say . |
| 6 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 7 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |
| 8 | Can the text and graphics be moved around once they have been placed on the page ? |
| 9 | But no charges have been brought and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 10 | No charges have been brought , and they 've been released on police bail . |
| 11 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 12 | And they have been renewed on an alarming scale since the crisis started . |
| 13 | They are descended from a common ancestress through female links only and they have been nurtured on food which derives from a common parcel of land . |
| 14 | Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record . |
| 15 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 16 | In the place of the marble fantasies they tore down , the British erected some of the most crushingly ugly buildings ever thrown up by the British Empire — a set of barracks that look as if they have been modelled on Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 17 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 18 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 19 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 20 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 21 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 22 | My clothes hung on me as though they had been draped on a piece of wood . |
| 23 | That is , a DCS200 fitted with a 28mm ( normally wide-angle ) lens will produce images that look as though they have been shot on a 50mm ( standard ) lens . |
| 24 | A letter-quality printer uses a ‘ daisy-wheel ’ printing element to produce documents which look as though they have been typed on an electronic typewriter . |