Example sentences of "[verb] been on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aquitaine , still English , had not attracted much attention from either side since 1413 , the military emphasis since then having been on northern France . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The notion that Pretty Polly was simply beaten by a better horse at the distance on the day was well down the list of possible explanations for her defeat , and George Lambton aired the widely held view that jockeyship had proved the decisive factor : Bachelor 's Button ‘ was a sterling good horse , especially at Ascot , but he was not a Persimmon , and if a real good jockey had been on Pretty Polly I think she might just have scrambled home . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and |