Example sentences of "she [vb -s] been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 2 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
| 3 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 4 | She has been on HRT for four years , has never suffered dryness again and attributes to it her general energy and enjoyment of life . |
| 5 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 6 | She 's been on the sauce for years . |
| 7 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 9 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
| 10 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 11 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |
| 12 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 13 | gone with the , the , from the college there , she 's been on an art course and they 're going round er , art galleries and museums and places like that |
| 14 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
| 15 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
| 16 | She 's been on holiday . |
| 17 | I mean because she 's been on the |
| 18 | eh ? mm she 's been on the phone , they 've rang Blackpool now , gon na get back |