Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 32 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 33 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 34 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 35 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 36 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 37 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 38 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 39 | He had been on one knee , but had risen to " attention " and then fallen , expiring without a word or groan , or any valedictory comments whatsoever . |
| 40 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 41 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 42 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 43 | It 's been on several days recently . |
| 44 | " He 's been on three legs for a couple o' days . |