Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 3 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 4 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 5 | There was no one there ; I had been released on a false alarm . |
| 6 | Probably wo n't come as a surprise to you , but er , I 've been working on a training system . |
| 7 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working on a report and I 've only just realised how late it is . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have been concentrating on a report of the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs on Inward Investment into Wales . |
| 11 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 12 | We 've been acting on a |
| 13 | And I , we 've been complimented on a number of occasions on that procedure erm by various public bodies . |
| 14 | So if that management committee decides in a year 's time or two year 's time thank you when when we 've been rolling on a bit and a lot of this has died down that they want a single headed project . |
| 15 | Talus president , Steve Sarich says ‘ its like we 've been dropped on a different planet and all the Martians love us ’ — surely sales of NeXT boxes are n't that rare , or are they ? |
| 16 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 17 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 18 | My clothes hung on me as though they had been draped on a piece of wood . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 22 | However , it has been challenged on a number of grounds . |
| 23 | It has been built on a solid bedrock of good dogs and breeding control , with a strong emphasis on mentality . |
| 24 | The general layout and fine pavements give the site all the appearance of a rich villa , but it has been built on a levelled shelf of tufa , through which flow vigorous streams from nearby springs . |
| 25 | Even if it has , you should not always expect reliable reading of a file on a 5.25 inch disk when it has been written on a 1.2MB drive and you are attempting to read the file on a 360K drive . |
| 26 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 27 | Erm and it it it , it has been defended on a number of grounds . |
| 28 | It has been based on a reciprocity between governors and governed . |
| 29 | It has been argued on a small amount of evidence from Britain and a greater quantity from Gaul , that most civitates were divided into constituent pagi , or rural areas , and that small towns acted as pagus centres . |
| 30 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |