Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Salvation Army was established in the town in 1881 by Captain and Mrs Preston and has always been in Edward Street . |
| 2 | Pakistan is Chris 's first overseas post but Rupert has also been with LASMO Columbia . |
| 3 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 4 | The State of Qatar became independent in 1971 , having previously been under United Kingdom protection . |
| 5 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 6 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 7 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 8 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 9 | The humiliation was worse because it was so public , and it was a good thing that Annabel had not been in New York when the news broke , when gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel 's home phones with their venomous questions . |
| 10 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 11 | Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been with Michael Stein in Immigration . |
| 13 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 14 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 15 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |
| 16 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 17 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 18 | Anyway , you 've never been to New York . |
| 19 | I 've never been to Kings Lynn |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never been in New Zealand native forest , ’ she added wistfully . |
| 21 | I 've never been in St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 22 | Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly . |
| 23 | Edouard had never been to north Africa ; he was unprepared for the beauty of Algiers itself , and the magnificence of the surrounding country , with its rugged sunburned hills , its narrow winding roads which would suddenly open up on views of a vivid blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 24 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose , ’ he remarked drily , ‘ you have already been through Sir Ralph 's papers ? ’ |
| 26 | Love reveals that Yorkshire have already been in Cape Town for a week and that their England A captain , Martyn Moxon , will be flying in from Australia to join them this weekend . |
| 27 | I have n't been to Hong Kong to see Ben |
| 28 | I have recently been in New Zealand and I think Scotland could benefit from the kind of facilities they have . |