Example sentences of "have been on duty [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A team of counsellors has been on duty over the weekend between 8am and 8pm and the helpline will remain live between these hours daily until 5pm on Friday , February 26 . |
| 2 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 3 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 4 | She had been on duty since Friday morning . |
| 5 | As Mr Myer had been on duty under somewhat arduous conditions for several months he decided that his nerves were playing tricks on him and that he was having hallucinations . |
| 6 | There was no sign of the two policemen who had been on duty at the cordon . |
| 7 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |
| 8 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 9 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 10 | He said Allitt had been on duty on 24 occasions when children suffered collapses on the ward . |
| 11 | He had been on duty in a trailer outside the shop in Ilminster , Essex . |
| 12 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 13 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |