Example sentences of "[verb] be on [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 2 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Miss Scanlon , who is in her 20s , has been on sick leave for four months . |
| 5 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 6 | PC James Connolly , 37 , had been on long-term sick-leave for several months with depression and police are worried for his safety . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 9 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 10 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 11 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 12 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 13 | " He 's been on three legs for a couple o' days . |