Example sentences of "[pron] have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 3 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 5 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 8 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 9 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 10 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 11 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 13 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 14 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 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 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 17 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 18 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 19 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 20 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 21 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 24 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 25 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 26 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 27 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 28 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 29 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 30 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |