Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs A. W. wrote : ‘ I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the time and effort you have put into compiling this diet which has made a bigger difference to my weight and dimensions than any other diet I have been on … . ‘ |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 4 | More recently I have been on the phone to Minsk , Nottingham 's twin town , in connection with the Lord Mayor 's appeal for aid to the victims of Chernobyl . |
| 5 | I have been on ones of 100,000 acres . |
| 6 | Since a success with Corydoras panda I have been on the lookout for other species of catfish to work with so I gratefully headed home with my new charges . |
| 7 | I have been on to-day , so I have not had much time , I have wrote to G. Titman to-night . |
| 8 | I have been on the council for three or four years , perhaps one of the more outspoken ones . ’ |
| 9 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Erm I have been on commission basis . |
| 12 | Er I have been on commission basis . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’ |
| 14 | I have been on location around America rather than Hollywood . |
| 15 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 16 | For example , imagine the situation where you have been on a strict , very low calorie diet for a month or so . |
| 17 | to my son , You have been on the phone again . |
| 18 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 19 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 20 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 22 | Where only a proportion of the damage has occurred since we have been on cover , we should pay the cost of the underpinning , subject to the adequacy of the sum insured and the policy excess . |
| 23 | We have been on a trip to Cliff College in Derbyshire . |
| 24 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 25 | We have been on a high speed , yeah . |
| 26 | They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting . |
| 27 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 28 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |
| 29 | ‘ Degas to Matisse : The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums ’ ( 14 February-25 April ) comprises forty-three representational works of consistent high quality , collected by New York investment banker Maurice Wertheim , and bequeathed in 1950 to his alma mater , where they have been on display since 1974 . |
| 30 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |