Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 3 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 4 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 5 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 6 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 7 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 8 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 9 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 10 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 11 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 12 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 13 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 14 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 15 | It was wonderful to see how the great court filled , as though the word of her return in triumph had been blown in on the wind . |
| 16 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 17 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 18 | The question , which had been popped earlier on the stadium 's electronic scoreboard , got the thumbs up . |
| 19 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 20 | He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there . |
| 21 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 22 | Russell Reynolds had been called in on occasion , and a smaller firm — seen as a very good specialist — for specific assignments in commodity finance . |
| 23 | The elections had been called prematurely on Dec. 10 , 1990 , by Prime Minister Jonathan Motzfeldt , leader of the left-wing Forward ( Siumut ) , after opposition members claimed to have evidence that Cabinet ministers had misused public funds on entertaining party members [ see p. 37925 ] . |
| 24 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 25 | However , when the case was brought before the House of Lords in 1991 , Lord Bridge disagreed , concluding that the decision letter had been based entirely on the ‘ special circumstances of the case ’ and that , contrary to SAVE 's fears , no dangerous precedent would be set . |
| 26 | In a letter to the head of the air staff secretariat at Whitehall , the Killin team leader , Billy Stitt , said that the provision of helicopters had been based solely on the military requirement for crashed aircraft and the maritime role , with no account taken of the ever-growing number of people suffering serious injury on Scottish mountains . |
| 27 | The friendship between Branson and Oldfield had been based initially on dependence and protectiveness — mutual need , and mutual gratitude . |
| 28 | Dr Nathanson said that a reply had been received only on the eve of the press conference and did not alleviate all its concerns . |
| 29 | However , he had been rearrested on April 12 , immediately after his arrival in Donetsk to attend a rally of striking miners [ for miners ' strike see above ; pp. 38129-30 ] , and had been re-released only on May 12 . |
| 30 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |