Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 4 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 5 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 6 | She had been assisted on humanitarian grounds for long enough and her allegations ‘ came forth when the assistance ceased ’ , it said . |
| 7 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 8 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 9 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 10 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 11 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 12 | A pension at the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay is payable for note less than 91 days to the spouse of an officer who dies in service with less than 2 years qualifying service , his widow will receive an annual pension of up to one-half of what his/her pension would have been if he/she had been retired on ill health grounds on the date of his/her death . |
| 13 | He has been suspended on full pay . |
| 14 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 15 | He has been released on conditional bail . |
| 16 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 17 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 18 | It has been said on high authority that |
| 19 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 20 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 21 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 22 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 23 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 24 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |