Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first Plan identified twenty action points and progress has been made on them all . |
| 2 | Geochemistry has been categorised on its own at some times , but has been combined with Petrology , or with Mineralogy and Petrology , at other times . |
| 3 | A little company in Golden , Colorado has been working on its own version of Unix for the last year and half , this one called Usix . |
| 4 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 5 | It is likely to be the first occasion that the puppy has been left on its own , away from its mother and littermates , and as a result , once you have gone to bed , it may well feel disturbed , and start to howl . |
| 6 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 7 | Should n't have been left on his own , but that 's Rose Hilaire for you . |
| 8 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 9 | What outsiders did n't know was that Bowyer 's remarks had been based on his own fruitless attempts to sign a big name Catholic — Jim McFadden of Cliftonville . |
| 10 | Liz , a 25-year-old single woman , had been living on her own for the previous year in a flat above a small craft shop that she ran together with her mother . |
| 11 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 12 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 13 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 14 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 15 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 16 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 17 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 18 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 19 | Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday . |
| 20 | After he 's been kept on his own , the troop wo n't accept him back . ’ |
| 21 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |