Example sentences of "[adv] been on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 2 | Payton who had only been on the field for six minutes put Celtic further ahead in the 66th minute when he accepted a left wing pass from Collins to shoot low into the net from six yards . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before . |
| 4 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 5 | A council spokeswoman said the couple had only been on the waiting list for 11 years . |
| 6 | True , he had only been on the periphery , a bit-part player who could usefully be dragooned into secondary roles when a little muscle was required . |
| 7 | But she had only been on the mountain for two hours , three at the most . |
| 8 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 9 | This , too , has been a frequent component of the instruction , though the emphasis has generally been on the retrieval of information from the stock , with the organization and communication of this information for effective learning left in the background . |
| 10 | His first job was to start his teams to plough : he had already been on the field the day before to mark out the stetches . |
| 11 | How much more able to make that judgement were those colleagues who had already been on the board for seven years or more ? ’ |
| 12 | That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted . |
| 13 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 14 | Tosh and Les have just been on the phone to us up there have n't they ? |
| 15 | Jesus , Saint Peter and James and John had just been on the mountain top at the site of the transfiguration , a high point in the gospel story , and right on the heels of that they descended into the valley below and there was a crowd with Jesus ' others disciples . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 17 | If the tortoiseshell had still been on the windowsill she probably would not have looked in , but the tortoiseshell had removed itself to the hearth rug . |
| 18 | … and finally , last week 's news of soaring crime rates in Teesdale prompts reader Fred Day to suggest that it would never have happened had Geoff Moody still been on the Barney beat . |
| 19 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 20 | The focus has almost always been on the North Sea , although between 1965 and 1973 eight distant-water freezer trawlers belonging to Ranger Fisheries , a subsidiary of P and O , were based in the port . |
| 21 | The 1988 social security changes have always been on the agenda of the project and with the abolition of additional requirements and single payments , new sources of support must be found for the core families . |
| 22 | And anyway , why would the Cathedral jackdaws suddenly break the habit of centuries and come to the south side when their haunt had always been on the north ? |
| 23 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 24 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 25 | As far as I 've been told and remember , Dad 's always been on the boat , yeah . |
| 26 | Tealtaoich said , ‘ You have always been on the side of justice , Trees ; come with us and fight with us and for us , as you have done in the past . ’ |
| 27 | The poets had always been on the side of the people . |
| 28 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 29 | ‘ I did n't know you had ever been on the stage . ’ |
| 30 | On previous tasks he has usually been on the cordon ringing the incident that the EOD team has been involved with , and cursing them for taking so long . |