Example sentences of "have been [verb] on his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Bernard Shaw 's correspondence with Mrs Patrick Campbell some light has been thrown on his personal life and general outlook . |
| 2 | Dr. Kumar , the 35-year-old research scientist , who is single and lives in Marton , has been campaigning on his short but busy record as an MP . |
| 3 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 4 | Prima facie either the settlor has made a chargeable transfer which has attracted CTT on the value transferred ( unless his death before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , has prevented his disposition from being a chargeable transfer by giving rise to liability to estate duty under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( c ) of the Finance Act , 1894 ) or , in the case of a mortis causa settlement , either estate duty or CTT has been paid on his testamentary estate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Should n't have been left on his own , but that 's Rose Hilaire for you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling . |
| 9 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 15 | After he 's been kept on his own , the troop wo n't accept him back . ’ |