Example sentences of "[verb] been on [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hercules transport aircraft , which has been on standby for the past two days will fly to the Croatian capital Zagreb . |
| 2 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 3 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 4 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 5 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 6 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 7 | The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks . |
| 8 | They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting . |
| 9 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |
| 10 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |