Example sentences of "[been] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 2 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 3 | I have also been on many other outings with my family where we enjoyed nature together . |
| 4 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 5 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 6 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's been on all the time is n't it ? |
| 8 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 9 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 10 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 11 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 12 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 13 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | been on that wasteland . |
| 15 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 16 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 17 | Why is John , and Ann and Paul and Teresa and all them been on that trussing line , and Merv . |
| 18 | just been on that film Barry Norman was on there and er |
| 19 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 20 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 21 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 22 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 23 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 24 | Could have been on that . |
| 25 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 26 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 27 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 28 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 29 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 30 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |