Example sentences of "he 's [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's been on your case all this term . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's been on the edge of having an affair more than once . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He he 's been on everything here . |
| 6 | " He 's been on three legs for a couple o' days . |
| 7 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 8 | But he is too smart to say it : he 's been on a Racism Awareness course . |
| 9 | He 's been on remand for twenty months and always protested his innocence . |
| 10 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |
| 11 | Since leaving the army , he 's been on a constant round of lecture tours . |
| 12 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 13 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 14 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 15 | and er , he 's been on the dole admittedly he did go on the dole If you 're on the dole for part of the year , your own salary is do they add your dole money to the salary , charge you tax on that , |
| 16 | He 's been on those has n't he ? |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | Jack , he must of been painted for years , he 's been on ship . |
| 19 | Yes , cos he 's been on the gin and Martini . |
| 20 | It 's now ten past eight , he 's been on the road for an hour and forty minutes , increasingly late . |