Example sentences of "[verb] been on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 32 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 33 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 34 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 35 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 36 | PC James Connolly , 37 , had been on long-term sick-leave for several months with depression and police are worried for his safety . |
| 37 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 38 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 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 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 42 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 45 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 46 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |
| 47 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision . |
| 50 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 51 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 52 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 53 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 54 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 55 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 56 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 57 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 58 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 59 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 60 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |