Example sentences of "[vb infin] been on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island .
2 But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too .
3 If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment .
4 I should have been on the following flight to bring you back .
5 Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets .
6 Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth .
7 It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her .
8 By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door .
9 The ketos , to which the hero is advancing would have been on the missing part of the stone .
10 ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’
11 In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne .
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