Example sentences of "had [be] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous night we had been well on course for it . |
| 2 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 3 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 4 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 5 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 6 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 7 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 8 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 9 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 10 | He had been abroad on his support-gathering tour at the time of the malai invasion . |
| 11 | While Owen 's older brother , Ross Wyndham , had been abroad on business and unable to attend his brother 's engagement party , he had faithfully promised to be Owen 's best man at his wedding . |
| 12 | Mercury , or Mercurius as he was known to the alchemists , had been much on her mind of late . |
| 13 | They had been much on Rose Hilaire 's mind because the buyer from one store , Morgan 's of Leeds , had shown signs of wanting to move away to a manufacturer offering lower costs . |
| 14 | To her considerable surprise Joanna had been entirely on her side . |
| 15 | Up to and including 1920 he had been consistently on the left of the Bolshevik Party , and this particular book was his last major offering from that stance before his subsequent evolution to the ‘ right ’ of the party . |
| 16 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 17 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |
| 18 | She had been there on sufferance for so long and yet she had never been quite brave enough to break free , to launch out by herself . |
| 19 | Ven had been there on Monday , of course . |
| 20 | With his assistance she could return to that blessed , wondrous world of — when had it been ? — an hour ago , before disaster had fallen upon her , when she had been blissfully on her way to pin Miss Dallam into the dress that would make both their reputations in Frizingley for elegance . |