Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 2 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
| 3 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 4 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 5 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 6 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm very glad to hear it , my dear , perhaps you 'd pass my comments along the chain of command , because , you see , my wife 's been in the party for 47 years and now she says she 's going to vote for that Natural Law doo-dah . |
| 9 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 10 | Er , my client has been in business at the u his own firm supplying computer software in a specialized market , that is stock control systems for clubs , pubs and restaurants . |
| 11 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with Burnley prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 12 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 13 | Indeed , he was able to forecast accurately which women would develop the disease merely by knowing which midwife had been in attendance . |
| 14 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 15 | In view of the conclusion which their Lordships have reached , namely , that the defendant 's conviction should be quashed and that it must be for the Court of Appeal in Jamaica to say whether a new trial should be ordered , their Lordships consider that it is unnecessary , and indeed undesirable in the interests of justice , to examine the rival contentions and the facts to which they relate with the same particularity as their Lordships would have felt bound to do if their recommendation had been in favour of dismissing the appeal . |
| 16 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
| 17 | So far her work had been in the surgery . |
| 18 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 19 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 20 | While such world-famous names as BSA and Triumph were modestly adjusting and ‘ tarting up ’ models which in their day had been in front , the Japanese and particularly Honda looked at the situation through new eyes . |
| 21 | It was empty , as empty as her head had been in Seville when she had allowed herself to fall in love so easily . |
| 22 | Their head has been in t touch with the bed , their heels , but the whole body 's been arched like a bow with the contraction of these muscles . |
| 23 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 24 | Wir porcupine 's been in the |
| 25 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 26 | Two used coffee cups and an ashtray full of cigarette ends suggested that the two men who awaited their arrival had been in long and deep discussion . |
| 27 | OR longer than most Poles can bear to remember , their country has been in crisis . |
| 28 | As most of their expansion had been in transport sectors , it was a natural step for them to try switching production from trucks to tanks . |
| 29 | She and her family had been in the States over a year now , and had moved from Boston to New York . |
| 30 | Her brother had been in the bathroom , but he was so drugged that he had slumped against the wall and slept in a haze through the remainder of the night . |