Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [been] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 2 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 7 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 8 | Recently , however , two small-scale studies have been completed which take on board the perceptions and experiences of parents who have been on the receiving end of child protection interventions . |
| 9 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 10 | ‘ Mostly , we find that Packman is being bought by larger , more safety-conscious farmers , especially where there is pressure from operators who have been on COSHH and FEPA courses . ’ |
| 11 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 12 | Jamaica alone has a hundred and five prisoners who 've been on death row for more than five years . |
| 13 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 14 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 15 | But even for him there 's a thrill playing with bands who 've been on top for quarter of a century |
| 16 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
| 17 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |
| 18 | Over recent years there have been on average over 100 children per year injured in accidents whilst on journeys to or from school ( see Table 28 ) . |
| 19 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 20 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 21 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 22 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 23 | The reabsorption into landed society of those families who had suffered in the upheavals of the past decade was to be a slow process , and was to give rise to fresh disputes over lands claimed by families who had been on opposite sides , but Edward showed over the next twenty years that loyalty and service would receive their due reward . |
| 24 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 25 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |
| 26 | Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor . |
| 27 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 28 | Mahmoud had traced the girls who had been on the Prince 's dahabeeyah and wanted Owen 's help in interviewing them . |
| 29 | In conclusion , I feel that the basic things which happen to the boys on the island would apply to girls also but would come about in a way both more slow and less physically violent , yet I have an idea that the scars left on the minds of girls who have been on an island together in Lord of the Flies circumstances may well be deeper and longer-lasting than those of boys in the same situation . |
| 30 | 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 . |