Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 2 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 4 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 5 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 6 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 7 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 10 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 11 | I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes . |
| 12 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 13 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 14 | The first Americans she observed were on the boat and she wrote , ‘ they laughed at the poor immigrants lying on the deck in their wretched clothes … without the least sign of sympathy . ’ |
| 15 | You say that the footprints you saw were on the path and not on the grass ? ’ |
| 16 | She liked being on the go . |
| 17 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 18 | She had been on the platform for my speech but used distinctive words of her own . |
| 19 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 22 | She had been on the prowl for days , though it seemed highly unlikely , to say the least , that she would come across the Harlequin man by chance … |
| 23 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 24 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 25 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 26 | She had been on the verge of persuading herself that her motive for seeing Veronica was simple altruism . |
| 27 | She sighed , and remembered she had been on the verge of phoning Bridget when Veronica called . |
| 28 | She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors . |
| 29 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 30 | The artists we met were on the whole very unmotivated and their lack of enthusiasm ( not to mention talent ) rubbed off on us . |