Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 2 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 3 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 4 | The Gloucestershire Regiment has been on its last full-scale exercise before merging with the Duke of Edinburgh Regiment next year . |
| 5 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 6 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 7 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 8 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 9 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 10 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
| 11 | I mean how far do you think the publicity that the area 's had has been from your considerable experience would be |
| 12 | Those who have worked with him during the time that he has been in his present post have come to admire the hard work , courage and assiduity with which he has pursued the object of bringing the parties within the island of Ireland to sit down with the British Government and resolve their differences . |
| 13 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 14 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 15 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 16 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 17 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 18 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 19 | He 'd been in his vigorous prime then , all right . |
| 20 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 21 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 22 | They might not have been at their best on Saturday , but until the outstanding Ruel Fox was injured they played some impressive football . |
| 23 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 24 | The waiter says this man used to live here until 15 years ago , and the bright boats bobbing on the undulating water of the main harbour would have been at his front door . |
| 25 | The Liverpool manager should have been with his goal-starved squad when they flew to Cyprus for an important cup match tonight . |
| 26 | The quarrel between Aldfrith and Wilfrid can not have been without its political dimension . |
| 27 | If ever Joseph felt King of Spain it must have been on his triumphal progress in Andalusia . |
| 28 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 29 | If I 'd have been on me own I mean that 's all I was waiting for , mine to grow up so I could clear off . |
| 30 | If I 'd have been on me own I would n't have stopped bloody long . |