Example sentences of "i have be [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I have been to every Metropolitan police station , from Islington in the north to Bow Street in the west .
2 I have been to a large number of conferences and met many general practitioners , including many from my hon. Friend 's district .
3 ‘ Mrs. Bonnard and I have been to a concert in Aldeburgh . ’
4 As Reyburn observes : ‘ Sensitive females know it is no good announcing ‘ Excuse me a minute , I 'll see if the scones are done ’ merely to have the sound of the flushing toilet proclaim to everybody in the house , ‘ I have been to the loo ’ . ’
5 Every time I have been to the Jobcentre it 's been a waste of time .
6 But I have been to the cirque in early June and in October , and found it almost deserted , so it is not too hard to pick your moment .
7 I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can .
8 I have been to the Holy Land twice this year and have seen the appalling conditions Palestinians are living under .
9 I have been to the Benefits Agency in my constituency , where the manager and staff made it plain to me that if staff were concerned about their safety they would not wear a name badge — but most of them want to because they want to be able to be identified by the public , so that if someone rings up a week later he can identify the person to whom he spoke a week before .
10 Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to .
11 This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’
12 But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’
13 Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’
14 A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’
15 Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time .
16 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
17 I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’
18 I have been with the church for ten years now . ’
19 I have been with the club for 10 weeks and sometimes it feels like 10 years .
20 I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic .
21 His father said last night : ‘ I have been through the usual Foreign Office channels .
22 Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times .
23 More recently I have been on the phone to Minsk , Nottingham 's twin town , in connection with the Lord Mayor 's appeal for aid to the victims of Chernobyl .
24 Since a success with Corydoras panda I have been on the lookout for other species of catfish to work with so I gratefully headed home with my new charges .
25 I have been on the council for three or four years , perhaps one of the more outspoken ones . ’
26 I have been on the parish council at Saughall for more years than I care to remember — eighteen , ’ he said .
27 I have been on the bus since then and there has been nothing quite as bad but I have still heard very loud swearing and seen emergency doors open . ’
28 For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act .
29 ‘ I could not have done , I have been at the high-road seeing to my traps ; but I saw that the rooks were disturbed . ’
30 They 're all saying and they 're all talking but I 'm the only one , I have been at the council , I have been at the councillor , I have been at Waterloo Place , but nobody will back me up at all !
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