Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been suspended on full pay . |
| 2 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 3 | He has been released on conditional bail . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |