Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 2 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 3 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 4 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 5 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 6 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 7 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 8 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 9 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 10 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 11 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 12 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 13 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 14 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 15 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |