Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 10 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 11 | The boys had been out on their bikes with a friend when they saw two men shooting into the brook . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |