Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 2 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 3 | In fact , Lazenby was hardly more wooden than Connery had been in Dr No . |
| 4 | Although the conclusions of the seven-year inquiry dismissed claims of active US complicity in Mengele 's escape , they acknowledged that Mengele had been in US custody for at least six weeks after the end of Second World War before being routinely released . |
| 5 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 6 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 7 | A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval . |
| 8 | The three wanted men were close friends from Armagh , and Duffy and Gorman had been in Derby with Magee for several weeks before Monday 's shooting . |
| 9 | Charles and Judith had been in Louis 's thoughts as he lay dying : he had left Charles a share of his treasure , and despatched crown , sword and sceptre to Lothar " to have on condition that he should keep his faith to Charles and Judith , and guarantee to Charles the whole share of the realm which with God and the leading men of the palace as witnesses , Lothar with his father , and in his father 's presence , had assigned to Charles " . |
| 10 | With Paul Foot , Booker and Ingrams had been at Shrewsbury in the early 1950s . |
| 11 | I know that as the younger by a year or two I looked up to Andrew ; after all I was an inexperienced young man from a small prairie town , while Andrew had been to Europe ! |
| 12 | It was some time since Alice had been in London . |