Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 3 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 4 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 5 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 6 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 7 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 8 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 9 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 10 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 11 | However , when I had been in Huntingdon a few weeks she persuaded me , against my will , to accompany her to a dance which was being held at Alconbury , one of the American air bases nearest to us . |
| 12 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 13 | I , I 've been in Germany recently , selling. , I took a number of our British products over and I saw half a ton of my cheeses in the German supermarket . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been in America , which was the greatest fun . |
| 15 | I 've been in the United States , I 've been in Europe , but the politics and the way people behave was just the same the world over . |
| 16 | Hello , yeah , Betty 's number , I 'm just having a recording done of me while I 've been in Harlow I 'm having it done now , yeah , er so I ca n't stop alright ? alright , bye , bye . |
| 17 | Yes , I 've been in Cairo . |
| 18 | I 've been in Denmark with Kent for 3 days to see our brother-in-law & niece ( ( 's sister died Oct , '91 of a second brain tumour ) . |
| 19 | I 've been in Egypt four years and I 've never seen a Pasha 's wife or daughter . ’ |
| 20 | I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time . |
| 22 | I 've been in Twiggy Porsche . |
| 23 | Erm secondly , I 'm not a statistician , I am unable to comment about all the technicalities of the the various assumptions that go into things but some of the people sitting around this table will know that I 've been in Yorkshire and Humberside for quite some time . |
| 24 | Ok , I 've been in McSwiggans … once . |
| 25 | I have been in America precisely four hours and already the madness is starting . |
| 26 | … Every time I have been in Annat since , I have remembered this further demonstration of Highland hospitality by people obviously poor in everything except the warmth of their welcome for strangers . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been in Paris a week . |
| 28 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 29 | I have been in London since February . ’ |
| 30 | Says Keanu , who has starred in The Bill and Ted 's Bogus Journey : ‘ I have been in Shakespeare twice before . |