Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [been] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have been on the expedition from Dieppe to Sumatra under the command of Jean Parmentier , 1529–30 . |
| 2 | He should have been on a real high , but you can never tell with Seve . |
| 3 | He should have been on the team , even as a second . |
| 4 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 5 | He should have been on the end of that . |
| 6 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 7 | He must have been on his way to Jordan 's place . |
| 8 | He must have been on one or other of them every night , in weather much like this , all through that last summer of his life . |
| 9 | He must have been on the phone as soon as she had stormed out of the door . |
| 10 | Bernard , harder on his own son than he might have been on any other twenty-three-year-old in the company was not keen , telling him he had no business experience . |
| 11 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 12 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 13 | But for the woodwork he 'd have been on the score sheet . |
| 14 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |
| 15 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 16 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 17 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |