Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 2 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 3 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 4 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 5 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 6 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 7 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 8 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 9 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 10 | It was wonderful to see how the great court filled , as though the word of her return in triumph had been blown in on the wind . |
| 11 | Now he never spoke of it-except once when they were passing , and the smell of it had been blown down on the wind . |
| 12 | No X-ray had been flashed up on the screen with a football-sized tumour for me to stare at , and my surgeon was playing his cards so close to his chest there was some doubt somewhere . |
| 13 | He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there . |
| 14 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 15 | Russell Reynolds had been called in on occasion , and a smaller firm — seen as a very good specialist — for specific assignments in commodity finance . |
| 16 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 17 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 18 | Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed . |
| 19 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 20 | Simple restitution by way of returning expropriated lands and property had been ruled out on practical grounds , and instead claimants would receive compensation in the form of vouchers to be used to buy privatized state property ( the scheme was designed to limit the government 's cash liability ) . |
| 21 | This party was a much bigger affair than the small gathering back in August , and Belinda had been swept along on a tide of food and drink and conversation . |
| 22 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 23 | St Osyth 's College of Education at Clacton-on-Sea proposed a BEd in 1969 and by December of the following year it had been turned down on the grounds that the College did not have an ‘ appropriate academic structure ’ , more thought about the objectives of the course ( it was for teachers of Home Economics ) was needed , the staff needed strengthening , the library expanding and laboratory facilities improving . |
| 24 | He disclosed that electricity supplies to the compound had been turned off on Friday . |
| 25 | Both he and Amiss had spent a considerable time comforting Sunil , who had been throwing up on and off for over an hour . |
| 26 | Relations between Georgia and Russia deteriorated sharply following Russian reports that a Russian Mi-8T helicopter had been shot down on Dec. 14 , on its way back from delivering humanitarian aid to the town of Tkvarcheli in the Abkhazia autonomous region . |
| 27 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 28 | ‘ I have to be involved with Scotland at every opportunity , ’ said Collins , who played against Malta in the last World Cup tie after stating he had been left out on occasions when he felt entitled to inclusion . |
| 29 | This news came within a week , as he had been picked up on Myitkyina airfield , unable to walk , and a lone plane came down and took him over to Dibrugarh , where he had to stay in hospital for over a week . |
| 30 | I had underestimated the importance placed on personal cleanliness and hygiene , and had been caught out on my underpants . |