Example sentences of "who [vb past] [been] [prep] duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 2 | He imagined with pleasure the bollocking that would be administered to the men who had been on duty the previous night . |
| 3 | There was no sign of the two policemen who had been on duty at the cordon . |
| 4 | He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others . |
| 5 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 6 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |