Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 2 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 3 | And it had been on his drive back from Bramshill a week later that he had turned on his radio and heard the news of Berowne 's resignation of his ministerial post . |
| 4 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 5 | Not only had it been obvious from the map that they were ninety degrees off course but they had been on tarmac for nine miles after being told that the track in In Salah was dirt from its start . |
| 6 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 7 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |