Example sentences of "but [pron] have be on " in BNC.

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1 I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news .
2 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 .
3 Rain said : ‘ But you 've been on his yacht , have n't you ? ’
4 Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course .
8 Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) .
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