Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er right I need somebody out there who has n't done this before erm let's see we 've been to Ripon , been to Thirsk , erm been over to Scarborough with Dr Rock , North Allerton no I do n't like North Allerton well I mean I love North Allerton no no I want to go south I want to go Tadcaster way have we anybody down there ? |
| 2 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 3 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 4 | Srebrenica has been under Serb siege since the Bosnian civil war began 11 months ago . |
| 5 | Mr Gates would be happy to get his financial information from the quarterly report to shareholders — so long as he can be confident that the news will be as consistently good as it has been during Mr Shirley 's seven years in charge . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , New Zealand is now a dominion too , and has been since September . |
| 7 | It 's not clear where the Lagonda has been since Tony last owned it . |
| 8 | A pink winter cherry Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea , which was a birthday present years ago , is still flowering , as it has been since November . |
| 9 | Mr Harris has been on California 's death row for 11 years and has appealed under habeas corpus eight times . |
| 10 | It is nevertheless significant that , however much anti-German growling there has been on Capitol Hill since the invasion of Kuwait , little has been heard within the administration . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't believe it , ’ he said from Washington , where he has been with England for the US Cup games . |
| 12 | She has been with Peter Cottingham , 44 , for five years . |
| 13 | Chris Patrick , from Hertford , reckons the force of England 's batting has been with Chewbacca , the South African at Hampshire , who bears resemblance to Robin Smith , grunting goody in Star Wars . |
| 14 | Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong . |
| 15 | His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 16 | He has been with JM since September 1981 when he joined as Administrative Assistant in the Group Staff Department at the former Head Office in Southgate , North London . |
| 17 | Ian has been with Wood-Way engineering for nine years , and was previously employed by Weir Pumps . |
| 18 | His mother has been with Douglas Reyburn for twenty years , now working as a spinner in the mid-flat . |
| 19 | George Phillips ( 56 ) is non-family but has been with Palatine for 16 years . |
| 20 | It was refused , and by mid-January Grobbelaar , who has been with Liverpool for nine years , was again Dalglish 's first choice . |
| 21 | Mr Katz has been with Dillons for nearly three years — at Hatfield and Kingston — before which he was export divisional manager of Aaronson Bros furniture business . |
| 22 | Jones , John Forman , James Hemphill and Haley Bulk Powder — names which will be familiar to anyone who has been with P&O for more than three years . |
| 23 | Robin has been with CCG for over ten years , initially in personnel and training in Scotland , and since 1985 in operational management . |
| 24 | He has been with LASMO since 1989 , first as executive chairman of LASMO North Sea , then joining the board of directors and , more recently in June 1992 , being appointed chief operating officer responsible for the day-to-day running of the group 's worldwide operations . |
| 25 | Wooton , who has been with HCK for over six years , remains in place while terms of a settlement are agreed . |
| 26 | For the past ten years , Bill has been with Lyle Carpets as Sales Agent for the Midlands Region . |
| 27 | Margaret has been with Lyle Carpets for ten years . |
| 28 | Kevin Beasant , representative within the London area has been with LDP ( UK ) for the last two years . |
| 29 | He has been with BP for 12 years . |
| 30 | Peter has been with BP for over 20 years , the last 5½ at Sullom Voe , latterly as production superintendent at the terminal . |