Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 2 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 3 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 4 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |
| 5 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 6 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 7 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 8 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 10 | She was horrified ; not only because she could see how Beth had thoroughly exhausted herself , but because she had been taken on two weeks ago by Mr Miller , who had told her categorically , ‘ I do n't want Mrs Miller tackling any of the heavier domestic tasks , you understand ? |
| 11 | She had been taken on straightaway , and was now settled in the position . |
| 12 | She had been passed on to Marie after two of the other trainees on the Community Care Course had failed to ‘ get on ’ with her . |
| 13 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 14 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 15 | They hung at the end of slender wrists and looked as if they had been tacked on to the wrong person . |
| 16 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 17 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 18 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 19 | His engineers were glad to continue with the central job they had been engaged on before : the attempt to speed up power station completion rates in undertakings they now controlled more directly . |
| 20 | The lake they had been playing on is a former open-cast mining site which has only recently been transformed into a countryside park . |
| 21 | They had been loaded on at Perm and were being shipped for slaughter and wool to Irkutsk , the great Cossack camp in eastern Siberia . |
| 22 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 23 | She was wearing a tight sort of dress in shiny , slippery silk , which looked as if it had been painted on to her body . |
| 24 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 25 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 26 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 27 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 28 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 29 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 30 | He had been called on to take the job in the name of the Imam and the survival of the Islamic Republic . |