Example sentences of "[vb base] been on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 2 | Unless they 've been on a course of laughing pills , no one at the doctor 's will find these jokes in the least funny , and if you laugh at them , we recommend that you see a doctor as quickly as possible since your humour gland has obviously gone mental . |
| 3 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 4 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 5 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 6 | Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well ! |
| 7 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 8 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 9 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 10 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 11 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 12 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 14 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 've been on the road for three days . ’ |
| 16 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 17 | P. H. I 've been on the street when helmets have gone flying . |
| 18 | I 've been on the railways all my life , eh ? ’ |
| 19 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 20 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 21 | You know , it probably sounds weird , but after you 've been on the road all that time , you kind of forget whether you 're any good or not . |
| 22 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
| 23 | We 've been on the set since about 8 o'clock and at about ten-thirty nobody 's shot anything . |
| 24 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
| 25 | You 'd likely have been sorry if you had n't , 'cos you 've been on the verge of snapping . |
| 26 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 27 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 28 | I 've been on the Moor all night , you see . |
| 29 | I have managed to apply it at least once a year since I 've been on the Bench . |
| 30 | ‘ Listen , Tone , I 've been on the game for eighteen years , woman and girl , and I 've had some strange ones in my time , but never anyone like this . |