Example sentences of "[conj] he had been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 2 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 3 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 4 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |
| 5 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |
| 8 | The police had arrived while he had been on stage , and a uniformed constable was now clearing the growing crowd round the Stage Door . |
| 9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 10 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 11 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 12 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 13 | And she thought of him relaxed , as he had been on the beach , his incredible body beside hers as they ran down to the sea , his face laughing and his hair untidy … |
| 14 | The other three seemed uncertain what to do next ; Dave Tanner had n't come with him , though he had been on his feet again when Maxim last saw him . |