Example sentences of "have been on [adj] [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 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 5 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
| 6 | He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Australia may as well have been on another planet to post war Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Very much , in fact the chances were coming your way before the goals went in , you could have been on level terms an awful lot earlier . |
| 12 | It would seem that Miller can not have been on amicable terms with the gardeners there , otherwise he would have made a point of a visit then . |