Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cross the Atlantic in the early Fifties from the modest hopes of Britain to the United , Euphoric , You-name-it-they-had-it States was to court vertigo . |
| 2 | She is the same wholehearted trouper she has been through war and peace for three generations . |
| 3 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 4 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
| 5 | She has been on HRT for four years , has never suffered dryness again and attributes to it her general energy and enjoyment of life . |
| 6 | She is Dutch , in her late twenties , and she has been in North Africa for one-and-a-half years . |
| 7 | But until changes in the registration of women 's occupation were introduced in 1986 there was a major difference between men and women : ‘ At the registration of the death of a child … the instructions to the registrars specify that the occupation … of a woman should not be recorded unless she has been in employment for most of her adult life . ’ |
| 8 | We must ensure that hospitals have well thought out discharge plans for every individual , whether he or she has been in hospital for five years or just five days , and that follow-up and after-care services are available for a lifetime if necessary . |
| 9 | Since 1988 she has been in charge of organising the BDA 's centenary celebrations a task , which she has combined with bringing up her hearing daughter Nicola . |
| 10 | She loves being by water , be it the river Dee or the sea . |
| 11 | Ever since she 's been under threat of eviction . |
| 12 | If she 's been under stress . |
| 13 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 14 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
| 15 | She 's been on holiday . |
| 16 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 17 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 18 | She 's been at centre since February and is 77 . |
| 19 | She 's been at work all day ! |
| 20 | She 's been at work today ! |
| 21 | She mentioned tonight she 's been at work every day mind you . |
| 22 | She 's been at grammar school a good year has n't she ? |
| 23 | ‘ She thinks she 's a radical 'cause she 's been to West Belfast once and scribbled Bernadette Devlin 's name in pencil on the Falls Wall ! ’ |
| 24 | SHE 'S been in bed with Michael Douglas and Arnold Schwarzenegger . |
| 25 | She 's been in agony with a long term back disorder . |
| 26 | ‘ But you keep telling me she 's been in love with me for years . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been in touch . |
| 28 | Erm and my wife 's not terribly well , she 's about here now but she 's had a she 's been in hospital two years ago with her heart so I 'm |
| 29 | Er , and I do n't think she 's been in trouble before . |
| 30 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |