Example sentences of "[v-ing] been on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 2 | Market specialists are convinced that at least three major deals , having been on ice for months , are now all set to roll , helping S G Warburg rise 64 to 538p , Hambros add 22 to 238p and Kleinwort Benson gain 19 to 238p . |
| 3 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 4 | Scholar also suggested Venables turned down the chance to sign Mark Hughes when he was released by Barcelona , having been on loan to Bayern Munich . |
| 5 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |