Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] on duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these states , the security forces enjoy legal immunity from prosecution for offences committed while on duty . |
| 2 | Our third meal we ate while on duty — sometimes at 2 a.m. — in the huge cafeteria erected just outside the gates of the Park . |
| 3 | The crystal set could be pulled into a ventilator by pulleys to avoid the sergeant knowing he was listening when on duty in the station . |
| 4 | Many hotels provide uniforms for their staff to be worn when on duty . |
| 5 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 6 | The tribunal in Bury St Edmunds was told that Mr Reid , along with other nursing staff on the hospital 's now-closed villa ten , drank while on duty , groped residents and encouraged them to sexually assault one another . |
| 7 | Her father had been maimed while on duty in Ireland , and she herself had been sold into virtual slavery there , where she had been seduced and made pregnant . |
| 8 | Extremes in hair style are not advocated whilst on duty . |