Example sentences of "[adv] been on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , he had only been on the periphery , a bit-part player who could usefully be dragooned into secondary roles when a little muscle was required . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before . |
| 3 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 4 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 5 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 6 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 7 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 8 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 9 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 10 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 12 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 13 | He explained that although the lad had not been on the mainline before , he was a good , reliable and sensible lad . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ I 'm astounded he has not been on the fringe of the Dutch team . ’ |
| 15 | Mason has not been on the losing side since joining Blyth 16 games ago . |
| 16 | An untitled drip painting by Jackson Pollock which has not been on the market since 1949 is estimated at $1–1.5 million ( £666,000–1,000,000 ) and will be the highlight of this sale of contemporary art . |
| 17 | High points of the show are large-format charcoal and red chalk drawings from 1898–99 , a number of landscapes of the area around Worpswede , and a horizontal format variation on the theme of ‘ Child Blowing a Horn ’ , which has not been on the market since the 1930s . |
| 18 | He told the magistrates the licence was for a car which had not been on the road for nine months . |
| 19 | Well has that one not been on the floor ? |
| 20 | This , too , has been a frequent component of the instruction , though the emphasis has generally been on the retrieval of information from the stock , with the organization and communication of this information for effective learning left in the background . |
| 21 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 22 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 23 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 24 | His first job was to start his teams to plough : he had already been on the field the day before to mark out the stetches . |
| 25 | Jesus , Saint Peter and James and John had just been on the mountain top at the site of the transfiguration , a high point in the gospel story , and right on the heels of that they descended into the valley below and there was a crowd with Jesus ' others disciples . |
| 26 | My dear , we 've just been on the most shattering binge in North Africa . ’ |
| 27 | Tosh and Les have just been on the phone to us up there have n't they ? |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 29 | If the tortoiseshell had still been on the windowsill she probably would not have looked in , but the tortoiseshell had removed itself to the hearth rug . |
| 30 | … and finally , last week 's news of soaring crime rates in Teesdale prompts reader Fred Day to suggest that it would never have happened had Geoff Moody still been on the Barney beat . |