Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [been] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone calls 'im Sergeant Joe , 'e 's been in the Army , yer see . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has been with the company for 17 years and like Robin started his career with the company in Scotland before moving South in 1989 . |
| 4 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 5 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
| 6 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 7 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |
| 8 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 9 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 10 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 11 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 12 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He has been on the manufacturing side of the industry for over 30 years . |
| 15 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
| 16 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
| 17 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
| 18 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 20 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 21 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
| 22 | The photographer is Howard Bingham , Ali 's closest friend ; he 's been with the Champ from the start , in the face of much abuse from the Black Muslims . |
| 23 | erm They gave away one goal , but erm that so often happens in that sort of situation , but no , people can score goals erm from anywhere from Oxford United and Jim Magilton was singled out in particular , I mean he 's been with the side since October and scored nine goals from mid-field , that really is a tremendous performance . |
| 24 | He 's been with the ship about seven years . |
| 25 | He 's been with the ship about five years . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been at the festival every evening , buying everyone 's books , telling the same story . |
| 27 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 28 | and er , he 's been on the dole admittedly he did go on the dole If you 're on the dole for part of the year , your own salary is do they add your dole money to the salary , charge you tax on that , |
| 29 | ‘ He 's been on the edge of having an affair more than once . |
| 30 | He reformed the Pacemakers in the seventies after a resurgence of interest in his music … he 's been on the road ever since . |