Example sentences of "had been [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous night we had been well on course for it . |
| 2 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 3 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 4 | Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals . |
| 5 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 9 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 12 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 13 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 14 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 15 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 16 | In the meantime the others had been out on the track and found the footprints of the Friar and the distinctive mark of his staff . |
| 17 | This particular day Tom Smith had been out on the drink the previous night and now had a sore head and a filthy mood on him . |
| 18 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 19 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 20 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 21 | He had been abroad on his support-gathering tour at the time of the malai invasion . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Nobody , least of all the press corps plane-spotting outside Incirlik air base , believed the first official tale : that the waves of American aircraft returning with their bomb pods empty had been off on a training exercise . |
| 24 | Mercury , or Mercurius as he was known to the alchemists , had been much on her mind of late . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To her considerable surprise Joanna had been entirely on her side . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The sun was setting , making the dogs pink , like the pink wine that had been there on the table . |