Example sentences of "he had been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 2 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 3 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 4 | He had been on the point of hiding in the kiosk : only at the last moment had he dived beneath it . |
| 5 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 6 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 7 | He had been on the run a mere two days . |
| 8 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 10 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 11 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 12 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |
| 13 | For many years , he had been on the local council . |
| 14 | He had been on duty in a trailer outside the shop in Ilminster , Essex . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 16 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 17 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |
| 18 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 19 | At Vladimir , Holly had been categorized as a foreigner , he had been on the second floor of the hospital block and allowed special food and privileges . |
| 20 | He had been on trial before . |
| 21 | He had been on the run for ten years . |
| 22 | He had been on the periphery of a large class and little attempt was being made to involve him in what was going on . |
| 23 | He had been on one knee , but had risen to " attention " and then fallen , expiring without a word or groan , or any valedictory comments whatsoever . |
| 24 | A successful businessman , he had been on the Board since 1972 , and had been Secretary of the Old Stopfordians ' Association between 1966 and 1970 , and President in 1972/3 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had been on his mettle throughout . |
| 27 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
| 28 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 29 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 30 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |