Example sentences of "she have [been] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 2 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
| 3 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 4 | She has been on HRT for four years , has never suffered dryness again and attributes to it her general energy and enjoyment of life . |
| 5 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 6 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 7 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 8 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 9 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 10 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 11 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 12 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 13 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 14 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 15 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 16 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |
| 17 | How could she have been on the river ? |
| 18 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 19 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 20 | She had been on the platform for my speech but used distinctive words of her own . |
| 21 | She had been on a bus once and had seen Simon in a posh car pulling out of an ‘ executive ’ housing estate opposite the boating lake . |
| 22 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 23 | She had been on drugs then . |
| 24 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 25 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 26 | She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse ; frightened yet defiant , sparking with anger . |
| 27 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 28 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 29 | It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station . |
| 30 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |