Example sentences of "been [verb] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 2 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 3 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 4 | She had either fallen or been pushed on to a spike on the plough ; the level of her blood alcohol gave some credence to the idea that she had fallen . |
| 5 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 6 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 7 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 8 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 10 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 11 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |
| 12 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 13 | And medical experts say the horrific condition may have been brought on by a paracetamol tablet . |
| 14 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 15 | All this happened in early spring — the third week in March , I think — and for several weeks of the previous summer Inez had been carrying on with a man staying at one of the St Ives hotels . |
| 16 | EASTENDERS star Letitia Dean lies bleeding , trapped inside a car which has been shunted on to a railway line . |
| 17 | I well remember a young man who aroused special interest one weekend because he had been taken on at a place which had a certain reputation . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |