Example sentences of "been in charge [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This untypically flashy Icelander , who has lived most of his life in Las Vegas , and worked on Mr Bush 's election campaign , has recently been in charge of polishing the images of Frank Sinatra and Donald Trump , the New York city real estate person . |
| 2 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 3 | Like every other Secretary of State who has ever been in charge of social security , I was under pressure from the Treasury . |
| 4 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 5 | Mr Reuss , who had been in charge of the North American car operations for five years , will be replaced by vice-chairman John Smith , who transformed GM 's ailing European operations in the 1980s . |
| 6 | A high-ranking Polish military intelligence officer , Colonel Michael Goleniewski , who had been in charge of Polish military intelligence in East Berlin , defected to the CIA in West Berlin . |
| 7 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 8 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 9 | He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War . |
| 10 | Consequently he placed advertisements in Russian newspapers , stating that he had been in charge of the production and clarification of Veuve Clicquot wines for a number of years where he succeeded in achieving perfect limpidity . |
| 11 | Since the first royal radio message in 1932 , which was followed by the first TV broadcast on Christmas Day 1957 , the BBC has been in charge of security . |
| 12 | Starting next year the Official Custodian for Charities , who has been in charge of investments on behalf of 40,000 charities , will be giving back the investments to the individual charities . |
| 13 | His boyish features seemed almost bright , almost happy , as he listened to the Coroner questioning a police Inspector , who had been in charge of the Metropolitan Police 's part in the operation . |
| 14 | Commander Churchill-Coleman has been in charge of the elite anti-terrorist branch longer than any other officer . |
| 15 | He had been in charge of an Army motorcycle team which managed to raise the money for a £10,000 minibus for handicapped children . |
| 16 | Was this because Rayne had been in charge of the Commissariat ? |
| 17 | Though only 53 , he had been associated with the School for 44 years , having been a pupil at Greek Street , and had been in charge of Greek since 1938 . |
| 18 | He had been in charge of the Recorder Club ; he had taken boys sailing at Toddbrook and Salcome ; he taught so-called " dead " languages but made them live : quieter and gentler pursuits than many , no doubt , but performed with enthusiasm and commitment . |
| 19 | In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad . |
| 20 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 21 | Since 1988 she has been in charge of organising the BDA 's centenary celebrations a task , which she has combined with bringing up her hearing daughter Nicola . |
| 22 | Alternatively , you must have been in charge of a yacht for at least a week , perhaps on Villa-Flotilla . |
| 23 | You should previously have been in charge of a small cruiser for at least two weeks ( perhaps on a two week flotilla ) , and you should be confident reefing your mainsail or paddling your rubber dinghy in strong winds . |
| 24 | SK You have been in charge of a small sailing cruiser making occasional open sea passages for at least two weeks . |
| 25 | F2 You have been in charge of a small sailing cruiser for at least a week . |
| 26 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 27 | A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally . |
| 28 | The beneficiarii might have been in charge of its annual assessment according to the quantity of the harvest , its collection and safe storage at some central point and its distribution to wherever it was needed . |
| 29 | The officers , whether beneficiarii , stratores or regionarii , might have been in charge of , and therefore accommodated in , the mansio , if one existed , though it has been argued that a beneficiarius , usually only a legionary , was too junior in status to have charge of such an important building . |
| 30 | Two days ago — one day ago — he had been in charge of his destiny . |