Example sentences of "been [adv] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |
| 2 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 3 | Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals . |
| 4 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 5 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 6 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 7 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |