Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , a little way along , a dragon had been painted on the wall in green . |
| 2 | Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state . |
| 3 | This last is most important , and has been missed on the whole in the anthropologists ' discussions about Totem and Taboo . |
| 4 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 5 | The window did n't look as if it had been cleaned on the outside in years , and there were splashes of pigeon droppings on the sill . |
| 6 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
| 7 | Using paint from the Crown Expressions range , the wall in the foreground and the shutters are in Carmolito F3–80 emulsion , the tongue and grooving and the fireplace is in Caribou K2–100 eggshell , whilst Ponderosa Pine has been used on the wall in the backroom and picked out in the berry stencil . |
| 8 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 9 | She had settled on a carpet which had been unrolled on the sand in front of her house and the family had gathered around her . |
| 10 | Calgary & Edmonton Land Co . Ltd. v. Discount Bank ( Overseas ) Ltd. [ 1971 ] 1 W.L.R. 81 concerned cautions which had been entered on the register in order to protect interests claimed in a pending action . |
| 11 | Great emphasis has already been laid on the rise in population which took place in these centuries . |
| 12 | lumps of concrete had been found on the line in front of the first train |
| 13 | The great majority of Krupp 's skilled men , and indeed of all German machine-building enterprises , seem to have been trained on the job in this way . |
| 14 | However , " consistency " does not mean that the normal course must have been followed on the occasion in question , otherwise it would be impossible to argue course of dealing in the case where it is most relevant . |
| 15 | The business had been put on the market in early 1990 , but remained unsold because of the housing slump . |
| 16 | Inflammatory proclamations had already been pasted on the cathedral in Riga . |
| 17 | From the air I do n't have that problem but , curiously , when I 've been shooting on the ground in China I 've relished the people everywhere . |
| 18 | Because of this vessels have often been stranded on the island in the past and there is a Coastguard Life Saving Apparatus team stationed there . |