Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 2 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 3 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 4 | She 'd been found on the floor beside her pushchair in the office of a local playgroup . |
| 5 | She 'd been found on the floor beside her pushchair in the office of a local playgroup . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , he sounded surprised and a bit worried — as if he 'd been caught on the hop . ’ |
| 7 | The women interviewed were assessed on the number of amenities — running hot water , nearness to shops and so on — and aids — vacuum cleaners , washing machines and so forth — they possessed . |
| 8 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 9 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 10 | This might have made sense when all Council decisions that mattered were passed on the basis of unanimity . |
| 11 | In one version of the mental test the prices of items bought were printed on the answer sheet so that they did not have to be memorized : in an alternative version the prices were not printed so that it was necessary both to memorize the numbers and operate on them . |
| 12 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 13 | She had been struck on the back of the head and strangled , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 14 | The London County Council was given an administrative home when their County Hall , Which had been erected on the south bank of the River Thames , at the foot of Westminster Bridge , was officially opened by King George V , in July 1922 . |
| 15 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |
| 16 | A red and white striped tent had been erected on the pavement and two young men in blue overalls were lounging against a nearby wall , mugs in hand . |
| 17 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 18 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 19 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |
| 20 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 21 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 22 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 23 | It was the discovery that little had been written on the background of Scottish women MPs which prompted the research work that Dr Burness is following during her fellowship . |
| 24 | Inevitably the services which had been planned on the basis of high seat-load factors quickly became overcrowded . |
| 25 | When contracts had been exchanged on the house Lee arranged to go and stay in Wales for a while with friends , a couple with a two-year-old boy , who lived self-sufficiently , an ‘ alternative lifestyle ’ . |
| 26 | Indeed the only recorded deity is Epona , the Celtic horse goddess , whose name had been scratched on the shoulder of a jar found in a pit in the Birch Abbey area . |
| 27 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 28 | contribution rule because income support rules had been constructed on the basis that a 20 per cent . |
| 29 | The scandal broke on April 6 when the government of Colombia informed the Antiguan Prime Minister that a shipment of Israeli arms , allegedly intended for Antigua , had been discovered on the property of the late Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha , a leading member of the notorious Medellín cocaine cartel . |
| 30 | I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it . |