Example sentences of "been a army [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fishbane , perhaps , will turn out to have been an army chaplain and a founder of the League of Decency . ’ |
| 2 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 3 | Her father himself had been an army officer trained first in St Petersburg and then in France , . |
| 4 | Her father had been an army officer of fairly high rank , and she 'd spent most of her early life in a military environment . |
| 5 | In the newspapers there 'd been an army officer 's wife who 'd disappeared while the army officer was engaged in a liaison with a woman in the army catering services . |
| 6 | He could n't forget he 'd been an Army sergeant , he talked like one and acted as if he was still on a parade ground or something . |
| 7 | On 23 September 1945 , at the same church in which she had wed six years earlier , Doris married Lionel Ingram , a grocery store manager who had been an Army sergeant and whose father was an Admiralty official . |
| 8 | Winter Marsh has been an army training ground since the First World War . |
| 9 | This year , in St Petersburg alone , there have been an army colonel , two Communist Party officials , a university teacher and a tax collector kidnapped . |