Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 2 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 3 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 4 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 5 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |
| 6 | At Ford , where workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand , the feeling was that car tax should have been scrapped much sooner . |
| 7 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 8 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |