Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I 've been through being influenced by people . |
| 2 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 3 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 4 | So they 've been about being erm |
| 5 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 6 | At first it had been like being spied on , but now she forgot them most of the time , except when she wanted to do something she should n't . |
| 7 | ‘ I can truthfully say that being with the recent squad has been like being with a family . |
| 8 | I 've been in is it |
| 9 | In many parishes the parish magazine has been in being for a number of years and is a great repository of local information — which event was held by which organisation in which year , who won prizes at the horticultural show , etc. , etc . |
| 10 | According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then . |
| 11 | This inspectorate has been in being three hundred and fifty years . |
| 12 | There was a lot of reluctance to take the action they have , at the same time the scheme has been in being since 1946 . |
| 13 | The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid . |
| 14 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 15 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 16 | ‘ My style has always been to be analytical , ’ says the man who gained a double first in maths at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 17 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
| 18 | What a relief it would have been to be able to dismiss it all as a Homes and Gardens photo-call , carefully stage-managed to make visitors drop dead . |
| 19 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 20 | Alain did not know what a shock it had been to be dragged up those stairs and to find a room like a small time capsule , the very essence of the man she had not known still lingering there . |
| 21 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |