Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 32 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 33 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 34 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 35 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 36 | When Mr Patel had passed , the previous evening and that morning , the man 's head and shoulders had been underneath the car , and no , he had not come into the shop at all . |
| 37 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 38 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 39 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 40 | But as some of the books had been through more than one library , the actual figures that emerged were 260 books from 292 libraries . |
| 41 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 42 | At present the advent of the All Blacks is concentrating the national rugby mind wonderfully and all four provinces have been in early-season action . |
| 43 | Now , if any of your other readers have been with you that length of time then , like me , they will have seen many changes in the magazine in terms of staff , reviews , layout and style . |
| 44 | They 're keen bird-watchers and their best sightings have been from the laboratory windows which overlook very special conservation areas . |
| 45 | Recent trips have been to Arran , Bute , Aberfoyle and along various cycle tracks in Ayrshire . |
| 46 | Sugar 's last 46 trips have been with an RAAF Squadron . |
| 47 | In parts of southern Africa individual units have been in use for over 20 years . |
| 48 | Since August 1992 , all Workplace Assessed Units have been in the new format . |
| 49 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 50 | Some public sector organizations have been through the debate over an agonizing number of years : local authorities in the UK did so at the turn of the century and generally concluded that ‘ receipts and payments ’ was not sufficient . |
| 51 | ‘ You mean those kids have been by themselves all the afternoon — just for the sake of a tea — or curling ? ’ |
| 52 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |
| 53 | How grateful the Jews have been to God and how sorely treated by God the Jews have been . |
| 54 | ‘ I am thinking that maybe these gentlemen have been to one English Wine Shop , ’ said Dr Haidar , speaking in that slightly sanctimonious tone that Muslims sometimes adopt when discussing alcohol . |
| 55 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |
| 56 | Electric cars have been with us as milk floats for many years . |
| 57 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 58 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 59 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 60 | Foreigners are flooding the market — in the last three weeks alone , six Norwegians have been to Premier League clubs on trial . |