Example sentences of "been on [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families eating candyfloss under strings of coloured lights , crowds of bikers guzzling frogburgers , country music wailing from loudspeakers ; we could have been on Hampstead Heath on Bank Holiday night . |
| 2 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 3 | Hounslow , with no injury problems , have taken a deliberately low-key approach to their latest European venture , giving their squad , including Rob Thompson , Jon Potter and Paul Bolland , who have been on GB duty , a much-needed rest after the demands of the domestic season . |
| 4 | The eyes of the world may have been on Microsoft Corp Windows NT , but over at the IBM booth they were pulling out all the stops to show that OS/2 is far from dead . |
| 5 | The Unit followed up the health of 700 children who had been on Blackpool beach last summer . |
| 6 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |