Example sentences of "had [been] on [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 2 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 3 | So commenced a dramatic operation , code named " Geneva II " , for which the whole of our cutter fleet , together with more than a hundred shore-based officers , had been on standby for several days . |
| 4 | On March 26 , schools and colleges reopened in Tirgu Mures , including the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy whose ethnic Hungarian students had been on strike for three weeks , and tension in the city and surrounding region was reported to have eased . |
| 5 | Detective Chief Inspector John Leicester Finch and Detective Constable Robert Turner had been on trial for eighteen days at Luton Crown Court . |
| 6 | ‘ Terry had been on tea for four years before he first began using horse . ’ |
| 7 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |