Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 2 | She is Dutch , in her late twenties , and she has been in North Africa for one-and-a-half years . |
| 3 | then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ And she 's been to the best , ’ Antonio chipped in . |
| 5 | Peggy has been a member of the union for twenty three years been a shop steward for eleven years the last nine at K P Foods and also branch quality officer , been a branch committee member and a member of the Midland and East Coast regional council member of the regional Labour women 's conference and she 's been to G M B congress , congress on a number of occasions . |
| 6 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 7 | " She was taken ill yesterday , " Mrs. Butler said , " and she 's been in her room ever since . |
| 8 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 9 | And he 's been under somebody or other at Charing Cross Hospital I , who has a rather different approach to the whole thing , many other people 's involve rest and doing nothing and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | There are 80 organic wines on his list ( ‘ no chemicals so less chance of a hangover ’ ) and he 's been to loads of vineyards to make sure production is as natural as possible without actually treading the grapes . |
| 11 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 12 | And he 's been to the doctors , he goes to doctor |
| 13 | Champagne for breakfast , and he 's been at it ever since . |
| 14 | Michael had a nice fiddle going , and he 's been at it for over a year now . |
| 15 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 16 | It were a bit swollen yesterday and he 's been in bed day , when he 's got up this morning that 's how |
| 17 | And he 's been in contact , he 's after them |
| 18 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
| 19 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 20 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 23 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 24 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 25 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 26 | And we got it back into the family and it 's been with us ever since . |
| 27 | JB : I painted mostly in my own time , and it 's been like that all along . |
| 28 | As a result , an Inservice Panel was established in June 1983 , and it has been through this body that project-related INSET development can be traced . |
| 29 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 30 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |