Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 2 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 3 | While it was unquestionably the most important candidate for saving by the nation , if all efforts had been concentrated on it to the exclusion of others the nation would have lost Belton and Calke . |
| 4 | Mr John Buxton , director of property services , said yesterday the new panel had been forced on them by the rarity of the brick used in the building . |
| 5 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 6 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |