Example sentences of "[pron] have been [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 2 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 3 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 5 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 6 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
| 7 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 8 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 9 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 10 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 11 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 12 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 13 | You 're alright , you , you 've been for fifteen years |
| 14 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 15 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 16 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 17 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 18 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 19 | We 've been through three names already . |
| 20 | Winter 's father said afterwards : ‘ We 've been through 20 months of sheer hell . |
| 21 | We 've been to one town where many have closed down , and others are struggling to keep their heads above water … |
| 22 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 23 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 24 | " Scores of men are in a worse plight than they have been for thirty-seven years past " , admitted Harry Orbell , " The pawnshops are glutted . |
| 25 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 26 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |
| 27 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 28 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 29 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |