Example sentences of "he [vb past] been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 2 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 3 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 4 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 5 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 6 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 7 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 8 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 9 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 10 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 11 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 12 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 13 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 14 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 15 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been on the point of hiding in the kiosk : only at the last moment had he dived beneath it . |
| 19 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 20 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 21 | He had been on the run a mere two days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had been on duty for nine hours without a break , and after changing the symbols had gone to obtain refreshment . |
| 27 | For many years , he had been on the local council . |
| 28 | He had been on duty in a trailer outside the shop in Ilminster , Essex . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 30 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |