Example sentences of "been [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut .
2 I 've never been in on a Friday afternoon because erm
3 → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties .
4 Well it 'll been in on the table .
5 Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise .
6 Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double .
7 They 've been back on the phone again despite Portsmouth awarding him a new two-year contract !
8 I 've only been back on the case , in cosmic terms , about two-and-a-half minutes .
9 Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) .
10 The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars .
11 It 's been out on a Christmas LP , among lots of other songs , every year for six years running .
12 Well fancy being a like that all that time it 's bad enough when you 've been out on a binge and you get that headache then .
13 But , like if it 's been out on the deck , the only things off the deck that they can save , is like Ratatouille , they save that , erm , and like but it 's unused
14 This particular day Tom Smith had been out on the drink the previous night and now had a sore head and a filthy mood on him .
15 She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval .
16 He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat .
17 A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants .
18 He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed .
19 ‘ We 've been out on the West Coast where everything 's mellow and laid-back , ’ says Julian , when I ask for his first impressions of NYC .
20 Well I know I know is the only one that realised I would 've been more shocked if had yeah I would have been out on the pavement here whistling with a banjo whistling Dixie there you are that one no not yet no .
21 If he had , my furniture would have been out on the street by now and Springsteen and I would have been queuing down the night shelter .
22 ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’
23 In the meantime the others had been out on the track and found the footprints of the Friar and the distinctive mark of his staff .
24 Alejandro , having been out on the bat the night before , returned at breakfast time with the pallor and red eyes of a white rat .
25 Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race .
26 Local teams have been out on the River Wye at Hereford this week for a final training session before the big race .
27 Not so surprising , as this is their first official demo , though the group members ( all two of them ! ) have been around on the scene since 1988 .
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