Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 2 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 3 | Looking beyond the confines of the EC , Jon Lester , a member of the company 's eastern Europe group who has been on secondment in Berlin , Bratislava and Budapest , gave an informed overview of publishing in the region , touching on areas of opportunity , support for foreign trade , and possibilities for foreign investment . |
| 4 | She had no travellers ' tales , no air of a person who had been on a journey , and I knew she would be both disbelieving and resentful if I should try to describe the eternal vistas I had glimpsed . |
| 5 | Yet how could one possibly become acquainted with his wife , Marie , a woman who had been on the stage and who , it was known , had lived with him in adultery while waiting to be divorced ! |
| 6 | Another incident in the same Shop involved a man who had been on a Government course on turning . |
| 7 | A prisoner who 's been on the run for more than six months has been recaptured . |
| 8 | Armed police have recaptured a prisoner who 's been on the run for five days after hijacking a taxi and holding a prison officer at knifepoint . |
| 9 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 10 | Then the officer who had been on the bed with Katya drew his pistol and shot the old man dead . |
| 11 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 12 | A Council member who had been on the visiting party supported the statement and endorsed the Chief Officer 's leadership on the occasion of the visit . |
| 13 | There are now almost 50,000 people in the region who have been on the dole for more than a year . |
| 14 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 15 | The strike was a show of solidarity with 3,500 workers in sherry production who had been on strike since the beginning of the month over pension rights . |
| 16 | Uhde , a young collector and dealer who had been on friendly terms with both painters since the early pre-Cubist days , in a book entitled Picasso et la Tradition Française which appeared in both French and German in 1928 , stressed the cardinal part played by Braque in the formation of Cubism . |