Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 2 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 3 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 4 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 5 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 6 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 7 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 8 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |