Example sentences of "[vb past] be on " in BNC.
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1 | Bonington commented on his experiences at sea : ‘ I am not a natural sailor and found being on a very small boat without exercise very trying . |
2 | I do n't think the arrears , when they , when it occurred is on the report |
3 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
4 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
5 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
6 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
7 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
8 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
9 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
10 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
11 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
12 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
13 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
14 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
15 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
16 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
17 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
18 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
19 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
20 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
21 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
22 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
23 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
24 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
25 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
26 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
27 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
28 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
29 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
30 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |