Example sentences of "been [verb] on [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 2 | In December of that year Dr. Yeats again wrote to Whitbread on this subject , saying that since his previous letter ‘ a paper war has been carried on between my opponents and myself … |
| 3 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 4 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |
| 5 | Listen , too much has been going on in my head of late . |
| 6 | ‘ Has something been going on in my kitchen ? |
| 7 | Can anyone give me a brief update on what exactly has been going on in my absence , i.e. who is being sold and why ? |
| 8 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 9 | Arms akimbo , her face still white under her heavy makeup , she snarled : ‘ Will one of you please explain what 's been going on behind my back ? ’ |
| 10 | Everything had been laid on for their comfort . |
| 11 | On March 14 , Liverpool announced he had been co-opted on to their board . |
| 12 | The sleek , expressionless woman wore a silvery skintight jumpsuit which almost appeared to have been sprayed on to her limbs , not donned . |
| 13 | It seems self-evident that war , and the authority of the military and security men , have rendered most of us mere passive spectators because we are powerless to change the course of the story ; but also because in the end the war , like national public life , has been put on for our benefit . |
| 14 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |