Example sentences of "have be [prep] our [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our library girl has been through our cuttings and there is quite a lot about you . |
| 2 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 3 | Even though Crocus angustifolius , originally from the Crimea and Caucasus , has been in our gardens at least since the late 16th century , it seems to be much less variable . |
| 4 | It has been in our family since 1850 . |
| 5 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 6 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |
| 7 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |
| 8 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 9 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 10 | If it had been like our door , the existing door it would have stood rubbing down flatting down and er then . |
| 11 | When we complained , we had quite a battle with the manager of the firm , but we argued that the fridge was not in use all the time , and if it had been in our home the fault may have occurred earlier . |
| 12 | Erm , over the last few months , we 've been over our administration , attacked , saying that we do n't care about the rural communities , only the conservative party care about the rural communities , that 's what we 've been told . |
| 13 | I 've been to our Arthur 's today . |
| 14 | ‘ We have a very large number of people who 've been on our books for between a year and 18 months and they are quality staff , people who would have been snapped up within 10 days , three years ago . ’ |
| 15 | So , we if we our receptionist if we can say those are our key specifications , again it 's a loose idea this is not easy sometimes to look into it , partly because we 've been in our jobs for quite a while and you know we do n't , we can clarify it , but think about your subordinates and people that might be trained . |
| 16 | Most of us have been with our artists a very long time . |
| 17 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 18 | All of the external verifiers selected to participate in the pilot have been through our induction training and have considerable experience in external verification . |
| 19 | We 're just saying what 's been on our minds for a long time . ’ |
| 20 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 21 | However , there seems to be more to the formation of a child 's personality at birth than these two viewpoints — that we are either born as a blank sheet or that the formation we have is via our mother , and begins prior to our birth . |