Example sentences of "[been] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 2 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 3 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 4 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's been on the edge of having an affair more than once . |
| 6 | Tim Roth has been on the edge of major success for years . |
| 7 | The conflict over housing land has been on the edge of the conurbation with a still undecided battle being fought over suburbanization by addition on a site-by-site basis . |
| 8 | Enzo , the Jove of the motor-racing world , who may get all the statistics and results and data from the circuit but has n't been on the inside of modern racing on the track since prehistoric days , announces to the world that Lauda is n't taking care of his car , he neglects his work , he 's got himself married and buggers off home and more of the same . |
| 9 | Been on the drip all night she 's got an infection |
| 10 | No need to ask who 's been on the piss all weekend , and not for the first time . |
| 11 | Gerald come in and he said you been on the piss already ? |
| 12 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 13 | Philadelphia has been on the brink of going bust for months . |
| 14 | Much of the blame must be laid at the door of the disorganised America 's Cup Organising Committee , who for the past 10 months have been on the brink of bankruptcy . |
| 15 | His father , a seaman , had jumped ship to seek a better life when Bulgaria had been on the brink of civil war in the 1920s . |
| 16 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 17 | It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces . |
| 18 | I remembered that Sally had been on the brink of a place in the university ladies golf team , and I discovered that she now sported a handicap of four . |
| 19 | Although the US may never have been on the brink of intervention in China she had sent 50,000 marines to Northern China in 1945 , followed by General Marshall acting as Truman 's personal representative . |
| 20 | For several days the world had been on the brink of nuclear war — and over an issue that appeared less than vital for those outside the conflict . |
| 21 | Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms . |
| 22 | The Progressive Democrats had been on the brink of walking out of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds ' government team over an accusation of dishonesty he made against their leader , Des O'Malley , last week . |
| 23 | The aircraft has been on the airshow circuit for a number of years and now needs a lot of tender loving care to bring it back to pristine condition again . |
| 24 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 25 | You 've been on the swing ? |
| 26 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 27 | This central point in Marx 's and Engels 's work has been on the whole supported by later anthropological work . |
| 28 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 29 | These have been on the whole successful this year with only one cancellation the Quiz Night . |
| 30 | 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 . |