Example sentences of "he have been [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 2 | The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . |
| 3 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 4 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 5 | He had been abroad on his support-gathering tour at the time of the malai invasion . |
| 6 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 7 | Up to and including 1920 he had been consistently on the left of the Bolshevik Party , and this particular book was his last major offering from that stance before his subsequent evolution to the ‘ right ’ of the party . |
| 8 | This is how almost all of his days have been spent , casting bait , checking behind him , moving on ; apart from odd nights in hostels where he can get a bath and about thirteen hours of near-coma to catch up , he 's been continuously on the road since the dawn that he stole the car and the cash that has become his fighting fund . |