Example sentences of "[verb] been on [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A bridge has been on this site from the 14th century . |
| 3 | The Midland Fishery trout farm has been on this site at Horsley near Nailsworth since 1883 ; now its present owners have decided to sell . |
| 4 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 7 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 10 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is not known exactly how this operated , but it is presumed to have been on some kind of contract basis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 22 | None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision . |
| 23 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 24 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 25 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 26 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 27 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 28 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 29 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 30 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |