Example sentences of "he [verb] been on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 2 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 3 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 4 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 5 | ‘ He had been on a weekend retreat and said he wanted to get rid of the urges within him . ’ |
| 6 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 7 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 8 | But he is too smart to say it : he 's been on a Racism Awareness course . |
| 9 | Since leaving the army , he 's been on a constant round of lecture tours . |
| 10 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |