Example sentences of "[been] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pray for the young people from QP who have been on mission or camp this summer . |
| 2 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 3 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 4 | We had been on holiday in Scotland and I was doing the washing on the Monday when suddenly a huge black cloud seemed to descend — a mass of fear , anxiety and utter depression . ’ |
| 5 | With the short notice Lesley was unprepared for this event , having been on holiday the previous 2 weeks , and was disappointed in her own performance but enjoyed it as an international event . |
| 6 | You should consider whether this is really what you want to do , or whether it is because you have never been on holiday alone before and the thought of it makes you nervous . |
| 7 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 8 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
| 9 | PRINCE Charles has been on holiday in the South of France with a beautiful physiotherapist . |
| 10 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 11 | She looked exceptionally well , glowing with health , almost as though she had been on holiday , which Liz knew she had not . |
| 12 | I do n't know you know I 've been on holiday and people think I 've got an amazingly strong |
| 13 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 14 | Ah it 's the acne it 's I ran out two weeks ago , so we 've been on holiday I had to get those prescription . |
| 15 | Mr Stevenson had been on holiday in Wales , and he had been exploring our beautiful mountains and valleys . |
| 16 | Two of the police surgeons had been on holiday and the third , Doctor Maingay , who did a locum for her father 's old practice when needed , had not been available until Sunday morning . |
| 17 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 18 | The CEDA leader , José María Gil Robles , had been politically discredited by his electoral defeat of February 1936 and was now stranded in Biarritz , where he had been on holiday when the rising occurred . |
| 19 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 20 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 21 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had n't been on holiday for two years , ’ said son Liam , of Oundle , Northants . |
| 22 | AN old friend came up in the street yesterday and said : ‘ My , you look well , have you been on holiday , you 've got a tan . ’ |
| 23 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 24 | I ai n't checked them , I 've been on holiday I 've only come back today that 's been drawn has it ? |
| 25 | I won I 've been on holiday mate so I ai n't Stuart 's got some and I 've got some L seven seven one to seven seven five . |
| 26 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 27 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 28 | I must of been on holiday or something , cos tha , that 's the only reason I would n't of gone , if I , if I was n't in the country . |
| 29 | Oh I must of been on holiday dad , with the girls or something . |
| 30 | been on holiday this week . |