Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 2 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 3 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 4 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 5 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 6 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 7 | Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well ! |
| 8 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 9 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 10 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 11 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 12 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 13 | She had been on a refresher course . |
| 14 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
| 15 | Well if we 've been on a drive like you are |
| 16 | We have been on a trip to Cliff College in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 18 | Unless they 've been on a course of laughing pills , no one at the doctor 's will find these jokes in the least funny , and if you laugh at them , we recommend that you see a doctor as quickly as possible since your humour gland has obviously gone mental . |
| 19 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been on a weekend retreat and said he wanted to get rid of the urges within him . ’ |
| 22 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 23 | But he is too smart to say it : he 's been on a Racism Awareness course . |