Example sentences of "[verb] [being] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day . |
| 2 | Does n't like being put on the spot and adopts conceptualising and abstract thinking to counter this . |
| 3 | She swore she could remember being dropped on the floor by the doctor who delivered her . |
| 4 | All is done to avoid being put on the spot or challenged . |
| 5 | He recalls being patted on the head by one fashion editor who said , ‘ Does n't he talk cute ? ’ , and deliberately parking his Rolls in front of the Managing Director 's Humber so that he could n't pull out . |
| 6 | Bernard had joined up in November 1944 and after training he remembers being sent on a train to Liverpool . |
| 7 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |
| 8 | I could n't afford to risk being left on the shelf once Karen had had her way with me . |
| 9 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 10 | For some this means no more than a trip to the supermarket and a loading-up of the metal basket ; for others it means being lost on a plain in Greece , in the dark , in snow , in the rain , and finding what you seek only by some rare trick such as barking like a dog . |
| 11 | It was spotted being walked on the quayside by a crewman from this Croatian ship . |
| 12 | Whether you love the adventures of ‘ Swallows & Amazons ’ or fancy being marooned on a desert island like Robinson Crusoe you will know that behind these exciting stories lies a real world of evil men ( and women ) who terrorised merchant ships to satisfy their own greed . |