Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have [been] on " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
4 | Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door , and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated . |
5 | The council economic development convener , George Hood , said yesterday that its commitment had been on the basis of the original development , which had never materialised . |
6 | What did she mean , her mother had been on the streets ? |
7 | His mind had been on the office . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
10 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
11 | His house has been on the market for six months . |
12 | His mam 's been on the phone . |
13 | Nonetheless , Ace hoped that Daak 's flamboyant display of aerobatics had dislodged whatever creature had been on the hull . |
14 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
15 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
16 | So our emphasis has been on cost reduction and internal quality issues . |