Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 2 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 5 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 6 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 7 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 8 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 9 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 10 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 11 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 12 | He had been on one knee , but had risen to " attention " and then fallen , expiring without a word or groan , or any valedictory comments whatsoever . |
| 13 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 14 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 15 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |