Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 2 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 3 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 4 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 5 | He had been born on a Junker estate at Schönhausen in Brandenburg in 1815 , and his family had moved to Kniephof in Pomerania soon afterwards . |
| 6 | The university student had applied for help under the NHS Low Income Scheme , but said he had been assessed on a £300 loan he did not take out , which put him 39p in credit and not entitled for help . |
| 7 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 8 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 9 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 10 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 11 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 12 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |
| 13 | He was surprised all the same ; he had been working on a case which , while not exactly undercover , was one demanding some secrecy . |
| 14 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 15 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |