Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have been on " 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 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 3 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 4 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 5 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 6 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 7 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 8 | You mentioned Stanford Hall then and you 've been on courses at Stanford |
| 9 | ‘ And you 've been on the go , no doubt , ever since . ’ |
| 10 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 11 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 12 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 13 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 14 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 15 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 16 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 17 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 18 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 19 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 20 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 21 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 23 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 24 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 25 | Rain said : ‘ But you 've been on his yacht , have n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 27 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 28 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 29 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |
| 30 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |