Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Wilko said : ‘ David has been in tremendous form in the early games and we can only hope the trouble clears up by Saturday . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ Sturch has been in butchery about as long as Allsop has been in medicine , insofar , it occurred to Harry 's mind , as there was any real difference between the trades . |
| 33 | Richard Jones , currently with Anglesey side Cemaes Bay , was formerly on Bangor City 's books and together with club-mate Simon Flowers has been at the Racecourse this week . |
| 34 | Scott has been around the rock and blues circuit in Ireland for some time and has played with many of the top musicians here . |
| 35 | About four-fifths of housing constructed in the LDDC has been for the owner-occupied sector . |
| 36 | We 're hoping — Andy has been through hell |
| 37 | Once accorded head-of-state treatment throughout the Arab world , Mr Arafat has been in sharply reduced circumstances since his ill-judged support for Saddam Hussein during the Gulf crisis . |
| 38 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |
| 39 | ‘ I am convinced that much of the success achieved by the Arsenal has been through the team quickly sensing a weakness in the opposition , ’ Chapman commented . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 42 | Mr Crosby has been at the centre of that romance , reviving the club 's fortunes almost immediately after taking over from Denis Smith at Christmas and then inspiring the sort of Cup run last enjoyed by the passionate Roker supporters in the days of Bob Stokoe . |
| 43 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 44 | From an early age Haflor Ferdinandson has been in love with 4WD vehicles . |
| 45 | Jefferson has been in the business a long time and is no fool , is he ? ’ |
| 46 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
| 47 | Colin Calderwood has been with the club since their fourth division days , but has yet to sign a new contract for next season . |
| 48 | Magdalene has been at Clifford chance in the City of London for 18 months . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 51 | Stanley Spencer had been through the war ; he had experienced the horror , the vulgarity , of war . |
| 52 | Ari found it was strangely comforting to be told how confused Ewan had been at the time he 'd turned his back on his family . |
| 53 | Bernice had been through a lot in the days they had been separated and he was proud of her . |
| 54 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 55 | Veronica had been to the flat : was n't it possible she might have left something behind which Loretta could claim to have found ? |
| 56 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 57 | So David had been on duty this morning , had he ? |
| 58 | Police said David had been to a pal 's engagement party at a nearby pub but how he was killed remained a mystery . |
| 59 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 60 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |