Example sentences of "been in [art] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had obviously been something wrong with the Cashman ménage for some time — why else would Cindy Hill have lied about her whereabouts , telling her husband she had been in Wales when she had really been in a London nightclub ? |
| 2 | Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time . |
| 3 | You see , I 've never been in the Sunday Sport . |
| 4 | When Liz 's parents had both been tragically killed in an air crash over Paris Liz — an eleven-year-old orphan — had come to live with Laura and her parents in the old stone manor house , part of a large estate which had been in the Harding family for generations . |
| 5 | Gerry 's ship had been in the Albert Dock and they had just finished papering the front bedroom . |
| 6 | The jury was previously told by John Griffith-Williams QC , prosecuting , that the two defendants had been in the Wrexham Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen on the evening of her death , where McLean later claimed to have found her body . |
| 7 | And it is now one of the most efficient and profitable steel producers in the world — having been in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's worst loss-maker . |
| 8 | Government efforts to promote national unity and identity and improved communications contributed to Japanese society 's becoming more homogeneous by the early twentieth century than it had been in the Tokugawa period . |
| 9 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 10 | And she had never been in the London Underground . |
| 11 | Ramsgill Moor varies from 1,000 to 1,700ft. above sea level and has been in the Briggs family since 1946 . |
| 12 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 13 | A fondness for dumb beasts may have been in the Hauxwell blood , because her Uncle Tommy , not a sentimental man in his later years , was a compassionate ‘ amateur ’ vet in Baldersdale . |
| 14 | As some staff had been in the Dean Centre for much of their working lives , it was only to be expected that they would leave Belford Road behind with some regret . |
| 15 | erm The Queen did n't arrive till 1643 , she 'd been in the Netherlands raising money for the war effort , very successfully , because she finally came to Oxford with 2,000 foot and 1,000 horsemen , and erm a hundred wagons full of equipment as well as cannons and so on . |
| 16 | In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent . |
| 17 | Suddenly it felt dark and oppressive in the little office , heavy with all the unhappiness there 'd ever been in the Demdyke house . |
| 18 | The cart , the programme explained , had been in the Tyne family for generations . |
| 19 | I can remember Leslie coming home , I think I must have been expecting Doreen at the time , that was in , that was early early on , nineteen , well that was nineteen sixty three , and he was , he had heard that had I had been in the Gatehouse Drama Club , and er he said , Would I be interested in com in coming to the Drama in if they started ? |
| 20 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 21 | I could have won my place back and been in the Leicester side tomorrow , but I 've got no regrets about coming to Newcastle . |
| 22 | ‘ We think that it could have been in the Holborn Circus area . ’ |
| 23 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 24 | Toye has been in the Armagh county squad in recent years and is a proven forward capable of turning the tide in his team 's favour . |
| 25 | The main wintering concentrations in Sussex recently have been in the Pagham/Selsey area , with up to 60 regularly ; Seaford Bay , with up to 30 regularly ; and Rye Bay , with up to seventy . |