Example sentences of "i have [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 12 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 've been on the road for three days . ’ |
| 14 | P. H. I 've been on the street when helmets have gone flying . |
| 15 | I 've been on the railways all my life , eh ? ’ |
| 16 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 17 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 18 | As you know , I 've been on the look out for some years for a smaller company we could have a friendly merger with , but there 's nothing even remotely promising at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 20 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 21 | I 've been on the Moor all night , you see . |
| 22 | I have managed to apply it at least once a year since I 've been on the Bench . |
| 23 | ‘ Listen , Tone , I 've been on the game for eighteen years , woman and girl , and I 've had some strange ones in my time , but never anyone like this . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been on the radio ! ’ she announced . |
| 25 | Sometimes I 've been on the verge , but then the reeling vanished . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been on the Hill twice this year , so . |
| 27 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 28 | I 've been on the go all day . |
| 29 | I 've been on the list for an operation since February . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |