Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 2 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 3 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 4 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 6 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 7 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 8 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 9 | The relatively small number of women employed were concentrated on unskilled manual , shop and office work , and could command rates less than half those of men in the same occupational groups . |
| 10 | Yeah I think that what Clinton did was to play on that to get elected and you know he wanted people to see him as that , but |
| 11 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |
| 12 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 13 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 14 | First George Escolmbe , an Oxford graduate , had been appointed on 14th September 1691 , and then on 20th January 1693 the Goldsmiths " unanimously agreed that William Dickens shall be appointed schoolmaster of the said town in the room of Timothy Dobson " . |
| 15 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |
| 16 | On my last visit to Wood Green , I saw that an attractive house had been built on that part of the garden . |
| 17 | Query had been built on hard fact and delivered hard-hitting articles . |
| 18 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 19 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 20 | Anthony Parnes , a stockbroker , had been convicted on four false accounting charges and two theft charges , and was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months . |
| 21 | His wife , Jane , who had been convicted on two counts of extortion and conspiracy , was sentenced to three months . |
| 22 | Gerald Ronson , the chief executive of the Heron Corporation , a privately owned property and petrol retailing company , had been convicted on one conspiracy charge , two false accounting charges and one theft charge , and was sentenced to one year 's imprisonment as well as being fined £5,000,000 — the largest fine ever imposed by an English court . |
| 23 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Lord Ross declared that the warrant had been obtained on inadequate information and the court awarded expenses to Mr Guest . |
| 25 | Other members of the curia also by the late twelfth century had been nurtured on Parisian ideas and Lothar himself later promoted some of his fellow scholars to high office in the Church . |
| 26 | ‘ She had been warned on four previous occasions about going overdrawn . |
| 27 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 28 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 29 | May 1865 , shortly after President Lincoln had been assassinated on 14th . |
| 30 | On April 13 a similar raid had been conducted on six soda ash producers in the UK , the Netherlands , France and West Germany . |