Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [been] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 3 | A four week challenge was performed on 20 children who had been on a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 4 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 5 | He was finding it difficult to extract even the names of the people who had been on the dahabeeyah . |
| 6 | ‘ A couple of years ago the kids who had been on the trip from Bawnmore just turned up at the self-help group premises and wanted to see the friends they had made on the holiday again , ’ Adree said . |
| 7 | ‘ I ask you then , who had been on the beach ? |
| 8 | Then the officer who had been on the bed with Katya drew his pistol and shot the old man dead . |
| 9 | Mahmoud had traced the girls who had been on the Prince 's dahabeeyah and wanted Owen 's help in interviewing them . |
| 10 | His real name was Thomas Massenga , once Ngune 's right-hand man , who had been on the run since Jamel Mobuto came to power . |
| 11 | There , at the bar , he had been introduced to one of the heads of M.I.9 who , when he heard that Eric wanted to get back to Italy and could speak more Italian than most people who had been on the run , immediately offered to make him a member of the Allied Screening Commission . |
| 12 | Udo Proksch , a key figure in the Lucona insurance affair [ see p. 36404 ] who had been on the run since 1988 , was detained at Vienna airport on Oct. 2 , 1989 . |
| 13 | She wondered about the other men who had been on the plane , and what theirs felt like . |
| 14 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 15 | There were ladies in expensive dresses , and people who had been on the train on ‘ red-petticoat day ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 17 | But the partisan warfare went on : Walter Long and his PPS , Sir William Bull ( who had been on the Conference himself ) , reacted angrily to complaints from the agents and suggested that the professional organizers wanted to keep the system as complicated as possible so that they could keep their pay and privileges . |
| 18 | Indeed , many Englishmen , even those who had been on the side of parliament during the Civil War , like Richard Baxter , had never wanted to abolish the monarchy altogether . |
| 19 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |