Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 2 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 3 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 4 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 5 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 6 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 7 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 8 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 11 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 12 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 15 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 18 | His nerves had been on hold for days . |
| 19 | Brian Elphick had been on Lambeth 's housing list for twelve years , having insinuated himself on to it when engaged to a woman he never married . |
| 20 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 21 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 22 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | So commenced a dramatic operation , code named " Geneva II " , for which the whole of our cutter fleet , together with more than a hundred shore-based officers , had been on standby for several days . |
| 25 | The Paris conference where she had met Fergus had been on Gender and the Autonomous Text . |
| 26 | Trent had told him to keep it ; whether they had been on board or not , he would have spent the afternoon on the reef — having them along was a pleasure . |
| 27 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 28 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 29 | The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel . |
| 30 | President François Mitterrand of France had been on board the yacht two days previously during a private visit . |