Example sentences of "have been on [adj] [noun sg] " 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 I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day
5 He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though .
6 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 ) .
7 Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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