Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 2 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 3 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 4 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 5 | Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ . |
| 6 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 7 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 8 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 9 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 10 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 11 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 12 | Although everything had been done on a shoestring , she was pleased with the result — and could not help feeling pleased with his praise . |
| 13 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 14 | Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account . |
| 15 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 16 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 17 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 18 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 19 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 20 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 21 | If there are to be company spokesmen involved in the filming , it is your job to make sure that they are there when they are wanted and that they have been briefed on what to say . |
| 22 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 23 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |
| 24 | Can the text and graphics be moved around once they have been placed on the page ? |
| 25 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 26 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 27 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 28 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 29 | Reports indicated , however , that it had been excluded on the direction of the King who , in a veiled attack on Brotherhood policies on June 19 , condemned those who engaged in " intellectual and psychological terrorism " and portrayed suicide as " martyrdom " . |
| 30 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |