Example sentences of "had been [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 2 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 3 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 4 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 5 | Cormack had been swinging on the bar stool , fingering his wallet because Amanda 's appetite for food and drink had made his credit cards nervous , when he 'd seen the man in the raincoat in reception and the beer had spilled over his hand and left wet stains on the varnish for the boy to polish away . |
| 6 | The witness said Gary had been swinging on the metal posts on May 11 when they collapsed on his chest . |
| 7 | She had been struck on the back of the head and strangled , said Mr Wakerley . |
| 8 | The London County Council was given an administrative home when their County Hall , Which had been erected on the south bank of the River Thames , at the foot of Westminster Bridge , was officially opened by King George V , in July 1922 . |
| 9 | Similar divisions existed at Bruen Stapleford in Cheshire , where on one occasion the local Puritan landowner , John Bruen , instructed his servants to pull down a maypole which had been erected on the village green . |
| 10 | A red and white striped tent had been erected on the pavement and two young men in blue overalls were lounging against a nearby wall , mugs in hand . |
| 11 | At that moment I realised for the first time that not a single word had been uttered on the subject since the accident happened . |
| 12 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 13 | Robert Schuman , the French foreign minister after July 1948 who had been raised on the Franco-German border , was attracted to European unity as a way to bring a rapprochement between the two countries . |
| 14 | It was this nouveaux riches strategy which so jarred with those such as Veblen who had been raised on the more general American ethic that work itself was a highly moral activity in which pride should be taken , as in the case of Weber 's Protestant ethic which valued utility and austerity . |
| 15 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 16 | It seems evident that the structure had been built on a shelf cut into the steep hill slope and a terrace added on the north side . |
| 17 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 18 | She found herself unable to speak with the fear that clutched at her , the worrying possibility that her whole life had been built on a lie . |
| 19 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 20 | Evidently a medieval castle had been built on the site of an Iron Age fort . |
| 21 | The Nefertari was a veteran , it was said , of something between 30 and 40 years on the river ; someone thought she had been built on the hull of a much older Nile steamer , and another that she might be a pharaoh 's reconstituted sun-boat , disinterred , like the others , near the Great Pyramid . |
| 22 | A low , curving wall faced with flint had been built on the seaward boundary behind whose shelter every spring a bright ribbon of daffodils strained and tossed in the March winds . |
| 23 | Originally it had been built on the usual pattern , a tiny square hallway , with doors to either side leading into the two ‘ front ’ rooms , and a steep enclosed stair up to the twin bedrooms under the pitch of the roof But someone , fairly recently , had done a job of conversion ; the two downstairs rooms were thrown into one , with the staircase half dividing them . |
| 24 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 25 | Malaria was hyper-endemic by the beach , so the village had been built on the cliffs above it , near the fresh springs . |
| 26 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 27 | It had been built on the seaward side of a small cottage that had evidently existed before it . |
| 28 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 29 | On July 16 the Supreme Court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to explain the nature of a concrete platform that had been built on the disputed site , and on July 22 declared that it would refuse to adjudicate on the issue until all construction activities had ceased . |
| 30 | Immediately these men destroyed the houses that had been built on the land . |