Example sentences of "[vb base] been on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 2 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 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 |
| 6 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 10 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 13 | But many of the studies have been on non-diabetic subjects and the hypoglycaemic stimulus was not always identical . |
| 14 | Erm and we would point out that er since the nineteen sixties there have been something like two hundred new stations opened erm on the rail network , the vast majority of these have been on Regional Railways . |
| 15 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 16 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 17 | It is sad when sisters and brothers who have been on good terms quarrel about who gets what , whether the reasons for wanting a particular item are commercial or sentimental . |
| 18 | That is precisely where we have been , which is why so many of the decisions reached in the past two days have been on British initiatives that have been accepted across the whole of Europe . |
| 19 | But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds . |
| 20 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 21 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 22 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 23 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 24 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 25 | All four have been on unconditional bail since October last year . |
| 26 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |