Example sentences of "[conj] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were in a bad accident or been into the slums with lice and things , you had to report it and bring your uniform in . |
| 2 | Some said Durham had had a nightmare or been under the influence of drink . |
| 3 | If you are an ex-Manorian but have not yet joined the Association or been to a reunion , send for details to The General Secretary , Manor House Association , Manor House , Northfield , Birmingham B31 2AE . |
| 4 | He has never had a girlfriend or been to a disco or a dance . ’ |
| 5 | The closure of Ulimwengu could have been challenged in the courts had anyone felt willing , or been at liberty , to do so . |
| 6 | A SMALL point on your book review of Durham : Birth of a First-Class County : had Ralph Dellor consulted the club or been at the match , he would have noted that it was Paul Parker who took the first ball from Oxford University pace bowler Michael Jeh , and not John Glendenen . |
| 7 | Er , one of the things that I I I do wish hand-book writers would er , do , is to erm , write whenever practical , to seek out the strength of the group , at the beginning , so , that for example , how mu if there are those of us who 've been magistrates or been before the court , or involved in legal processes . |
| 8 | To splice a feather back together , after a bird has flown into a barbed wire fence , say , or been in a fight , you have to cut off the damaged feather about ¼ to ½ inch from the base , take a similar feather from a dead bird and cut it to fit . |
| 9 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 10 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 11 | ‘ But you ai n't had a shave , changed your kecks , nor been to the bathroom since this whole fiasco began . |
| 12 | And it looked as though you 'd bought something rather than been to the pawnshop . |
| 13 | In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him . |
| 14 | What had abhorred me in the past and sometimes , er , perhaps arrive and been to the church and say , oh by the way it 's communion ! |
| 15 | Seen slides and been to lectures on it . |
| 16 | but erm , er at a stage that they are in and been for a long time in the States as we will have to er get armed , well I 'm sorry to say this but it seems like it |
| 17 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 18 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 19 | I have flown round the world once and been on Concorde . |
| 20 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 21 | The fourth of Ashby 's proposals consists of the introduction of special incentives to employers , both in the private and public sector , to take on to their payrolls those who have failed to find work , even though they have done everything asked of them — are actively seeking work , registered for a job , been a member of a Job Club and been on an ET course . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 23 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Finniston feels that the younger generation is having a favourable impact on the need to rid Britain of the ‘ them and us ’ syndrome that has plagued industry for so long and been at the root of so many of its ills . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 26 | A a apart from Chris and Bill , I 've sat down with all the M S fours an and been through the changes to the appointment contract , and how they now erm form the basis of the er interim client report . |
| 27 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 28 | And Henry also sent north those men who had fallen foul of James V and been in exile in England during his personal rule , Archibald earl of Angus , his brother Sir George Douglas , and Patrick earl of Bothwell . |
| 29 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |