Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 2 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 3 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 4 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 5 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 6 | The first thing I did was get on the phone to her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | There was no one there ; I had been released on a false alarm . |