Example sentences of "it [vb past] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
| 2 | It had been on loud all evening , and now it was the early hours of the morning . |
| 3 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 4 | Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 7 | When the Bishops moved into the house 10 years ago , it had been on the market for 18 months and had become very run down . |
| 8 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 9 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 10 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 11 | It it had been on the agenda before . |
| 12 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 13 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 14 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 15 | Through the brushed cotton of her sweater she could feel the pressure of his fingers , his touch scorching her as surely as if it had been on her bare skin . |
| 16 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 17 | Indeed , it had been on roach trips that I have found most of my bream swims in the past and although I 'm a roach man first and foremost , a splendid , clean seven pound river bream has never given me cause for complaint ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up . |
| 20 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |