Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 2 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 3 | You go to the market , and I 've been to the market , and I 've said , where do your grapes come from ? |
| 4 | And I 've been to the hills , Ellen ! |
| 5 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 6 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 7 | ‘ And I 've been in the parish longer than he has . |
| 8 | And I 've been round the country a little bit . |
| 9 | ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison . |
| 10 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And you 've been on the go , no doubt , ever since . ’ |
| 12 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 13 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 14 | ‘ And she 's been to the best , ’ Antonio chipped in . |
| 15 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 16 | He says that he is clean now ; Issy and him have been off the stuff for five whole days . |
| 17 | They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back . |
| 18 | The Psalms offer a rich mixture of spiritual , literary and musical expression and they have been at the heart of the Church 's daily worship since biblical times . |
| 19 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 20 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 21 | He makes me laugh though , I mean , as soon as I came downstairs and he 'd been in the lounge |
| 22 | And he 's been to the doctors , he goes to doctor |
| 23 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 24 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 25 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 27 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |
| 28 | And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion . |