Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals . |
| 2 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 3 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 4 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 5 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |