Example sentences of "have be on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
2 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
3 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
4 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
5 | He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) . |
6 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
7 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
8 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |