Example sentences of "people who [verb] [be] on " in BNC.
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1 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
2 | There were ladies in expensive dresses , and people who had been on the train on ‘ red-petticoat day ’ . |
3 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
4 | In the afternoon he visited various people who had been on friendly terms with the dead man . |
5 | He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah . |
6 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
7 | They 've got people who 've been on it for years and years . |
8 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
9 | That would allow a tremendous movement of people from under-utilised accommodation to smaller accommodation and would allow many people who have been on the waiting list for council houses for many years to be moved into smaller accommodation . |