Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 2 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 3 | He has been suspended on full pay . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He has been released on conditional bail . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 8 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 9 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 10 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 13 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 14 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |