Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 2 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 3 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 4 | An and the next day of action as I said before is on tropical rainforests erm . |
| 5 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 6 | They had recently been on separate holidays , met support workers ' families at their homes , danced at a party and had their photographs taken cuddling the few weeks ' old daughter of a woman Elizabeth met at church . |
| 7 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |