Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |
| 2 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 3 | My clothes hung on me as though they had been draped on a piece of wood . |
| 4 | That is , a DCS200 fitted with a 28mm ( normally wide-angle ) lens will produce images that look as though they have been shot on a 50mm ( standard ) lens . |
| 5 | And they have been renewed on an alarming scale since the crisis started . |
| 6 | A letter-quality printer uses a ‘ daisy-wheel ’ printing element to produce documents which look as though they have been typed on an electronic typewriter . |
| 7 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |