Example sentences of "she had [be] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She had been on the platform for my speech but used distinctive words of her own . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In her desperation she had been on the point of walking out to the Lock but there was no need to do that now . |
| 6 | She had been on drugs then . |
| 7 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse ; frightened yet defiant , sparking with anger . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had been on call for forty-eight hours , had snatched very little sleep , and was about to enjoy two full days leave . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Just when she had been on the brink of despair , one of her rich customers had given her a handsome order . |
| 14 | She had been on the prowl for days , though it seemed highly unlikely , to say the least , that she would come across the Harlequin man by chance … |
| 15 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 16 | One minute she had been on her hands and knees scrubbing and the next she was being wined and dined by the owner of the largest store in town . |
| 17 | Before he had met Kate Burrows , she had been on his list of ‘ things to do ’ . |
| 18 | She looked exceptionally well , glowing with health , almost as though she had been on holiday , which Liz knew she had not . |
| 19 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 20 | She had been on duty since Friday morning . |
| 21 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 22 | Ever since she had met him she had been on a roller-coaster , going up and down and swerving from one emotional crisis to another . |
| 23 | She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it . |
| 24 | She had been on the verge of persuading herself that her motive for seeing Veronica was simple altruism . |
| 25 | She sighed , and remembered she had been on the verge of phoning Bridget when Veronica called . |
| 26 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 27 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 28 | She had been on the run since her conversation with Jack , a steady stream of nasty fractures and frightened children and anxious parents , and then , shortly after two , just when things began to settle down and she thought she might actually get some lunch , a car screeched up into the entrance and a man jumped out , flung open the back of the car and half dragged , half carried a woman towards the doors . |
| 29 | Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again . |
| 30 | She had been on a refresher course . |