Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] [been] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 2 | From what Kate had told her Lizzy had been on amphetamines for a couple of years . |
| 3 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His nerves had been on hold for days . |