Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 5 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 6 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 7 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 8 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 9 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 10 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 11 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 12 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 15 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 16 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 18 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 19 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 20 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 21 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 24 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 25 | It 's been on several days recently . |
| 26 | ‘ All the instructions about what to do are on this sheet of paper , here . ’ |