Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
| 2 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 3 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 4 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |
| 5 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 6 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 7 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 8 | Earlier it had been on view at 66 Portland Place , and it will shortly complete its run in Folkestone . |
| 9 | Almost certainly it had been on camera-reconnaissance , photographing the British reserves being rushed up . |