Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 4 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 5 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 6 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 7 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |