Example sentences of "been on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather .
2 She started ‘ working ’ at the age of 14 and has been on the streets for five years .
3 But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 .
4 Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging .
5 Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles .
6 Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still …
7 He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began .
8 Some of it I ca n't disclose , some of it would have been on the lines of : ‘ Make sure you do this or that ’ .
9 Such a move would have greatly simplified the supplementary benefit system , as fewer people eligible for benefit would have been on the books of local social security offices .
10 Also , much of the money for the campaign has come from the community itself , and where outside groups have provided assistance , either financially or otherwise , it has been on the terms of the YCCC rather than anyone else .
11 The Paddington Bear wallpaper that had been on the walls for years was mocking her .
12 Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months .
13 Been on the cards for ages , that wedding .
14 The merger has been on the cards for some time and of course makes perfect sense .
15 ‘ These new premises have been on the cards for some time . ’
16 Speaking to Irish state radio from Baidoa , Concern spokesman Michael O'Reilly said : ‘ Unfortunately this had been on the cards for some time .
17 It 's been on the cards for so long I think everyone 's had enough .
18 This had been on the cards from the very beginning .
19 Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’
20 The words " liberty " and " slavery " which had frequently been on the lips of the Bristol slavery abolitionists were taken up by the crowds , and the weakness of both mayor and military left the mob free to do much as it wished .
21 Until an hour or two ago I certainly did n't know that this problem had arisen , but the date April has been on the lips of my er Honourable Friend er and of the Noble Minister er I used to represent part of the City of Leeds and Honourable er a and Noble Lord you 'll have heard recently of behaviour at Elland Road Football Ground on the death of Sir Matt Busby and one can only wonder what sort of people er we 're dealing with , but many of them arrive at Leeds City Station on the day of a match and they come early and they have then to get their way to Elland Road and there are often real problems .
22 One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti .
23 I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes .
24 In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance .
25 Science and education may have been on the minds of the panel , but the youngsters preferred to range over topics such as nuclear disarmament and the ethics of energy .
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