Example sentences of "[verb] be on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |
| 2 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 3 | Will discussion of reform then be remitted , as it has been on several occasions from 1916 onwards , to a Speaker 's Conference ? |
| 4 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 5 | A bridge has been on this site from the 14th century . |
| 6 | The Midland Fishery trout farm has been on this site at Horsley near Nailsworth since 1883 ; now its present owners have decided to sell . |
| 7 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd have enjoyed being on this trip with us today , you know . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 11 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 12 | ‘ All the instructions about what to do are on this sheet of paper , here . ’ |
| 13 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 14 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 16 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 17 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
| 18 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 19 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 20 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 21 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 22 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 25 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 30 | None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision . |