Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have be on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 2 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 3 | The views of the CBI could scarcely be clearer than they have been on the subject of the minimum wage . |
| 4 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 5 | Aye , she says I 'm feeling sick , well that 's er all your if your head is what you call it when you feel awful , you know I say if you 've been on the , on the drink you know when you get up and your head ooh , well that sets your stomach off , so his trouble 's coming from his head , on his stomach |
| 6 | They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note . |
| 7 | Peter Naulls and he , searching for the hole into the mine , had got as suntanned as if they had been on the kind of holiday they never had , on the beaches of Spain or Italy . |
| 8 | If they had been on the same side of the bed , he would have struck her . |
| 9 | And if they have been on the market the terms have often been unreasonable , with little attempt made to advertise them . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to keep our dogs out of the lounge cos they 've been on the settee that many times |
| 11 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 12 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 13 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 14 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 15 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 16 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 17 | Yes , cos he 's been on the gin and Martini . |
| 18 | I mean because she 's been on the |
| 19 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 21 | I have managed to apply it at least once a year since I 've been on the Bench . |
| 22 | Again we 're back to the the the same arguments on the capital receipt and I do n't intend to begin re-rehearsing those but quite frankly , I mean I would n't claim by any to have a vast or a a slightly deeper knowledge of housing finance but obviously since you 've been on the council the same length of time as I have , I mean you 've got even less . |
| 23 | While we had been on the opposite bank a new barge had come upriver from the direction of Minya and had moored near the end of the Corniche . |
| 24 | Er I do n't know but I would i I would reckon the crime rate since we 've been on the flats , even though the the flats are emptying out , h h has dropped er dramatically . |
| 25 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 26 | You know , it probably sounds weird , but after you 've been on the road all that time , you kind of forget whether you 're any good or not . |
| 27 | You 'd likely have been sorry if you had n't , 'cos you 've been on the verge of snapping . |
| 28 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 29 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 30 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |