Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 2 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 3 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 4 | For example , imagine the situation where you have been on a strict , very low calorie diet for a month or so . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 6 | Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do . |
| 7 | We have been on a high speed , yeah . |
| 8 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 9 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 10 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 11 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 12 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 13 | Since leaving the army , he 's been on a constant round of lecture tours . |
| 14 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 15 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |