Example sentences of "only [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 2 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 3 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 4 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 5 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 6 | But this has only been at the ‘ official ’ level ; as Sykes ( 1958 ) and many subsequent studies have shown , loss of a sense of physical security is still one of the major ‘ pains of imprisonment ’ as perceived by inmates . |
| 7 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 8 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 10 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 11 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 12 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 13 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 14 | Consequently such services have only been under the administration of health authorities for a short while . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 17 | I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call |
| 18 | I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know . |
| 19 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 20 | He barely speaks Italian and in fact has only been to the country of his ancestry once — on a school trip . |
| 21 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 22 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 23 | Well we 've only been to the dentist here . |
| 24 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 25 | Our work so far has obviously only been of a preliminary nature , but even so it is clear that there are many strands in the concept of participation and public involvement in decision-making related to novel energy systems . |
| 26 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 27 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 28 | Actually , she 's only been with us for eleven months . |
| 29 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 30 | Both were initiated by Billy , a 16-year-old with a recently acquired impairment who had only been with the group for a year . |