Example sentences of "[pron] had been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 4 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 5 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 8 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 9 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 10 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 11 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 14 | I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes . |
| 15 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 16 | Many of the villages which had been on the line of march were still depressed ; Hurstpierpoint was worth a third of what it had paid in the days of the Confessor . |
| 17 | At the Victorian picture sales at Sotheby 's on 12 November and Christie 's on 13 November , buyers tended to stay away from works which had been on the market in recent years . |
| 18 | A number of museums wanted the works , some of which had been on loan to The Metropolitan . |
| 19 | Roof trusses , which had been on a two week delivery when we enquired , were three to four weeks delivery when we ordered them . |
| 20 | UPH 's shareholders may wonder why Desmond spent £4.4m of their money on a site which had been on offer for £2.7m . |
| 21 | The news broadcast had moved on to other matters now ; the loss of contact between Earth Central and a Space Fleet flotilla which had been on its way to intercept a supposed alien fleet near Epsilon Eridani . |
| 22 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 23 | The rail tanker , which had been on route from Ince to Sellafield , was quickly moved into sidings while fire crews and specialists from Kemira , who were transporting the nitric acid , were called in . |
| 24 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 25 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been on the platform for my speech but used distinctive words of her own . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 30 | She had been on drugs then . |