Example sentences of "and [pers pn] have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 4 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 5 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 6 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 7 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 8 | You mentioned Stanford Hall then and you 've been on courses at Stanford |
| 9 | ‘ And you 've been on the go , no doubt , ever since . ’ |
| 10 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 11 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 12 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 13 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 14 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 15 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 16 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 17 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 18 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 19 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 20 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 21 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |