Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason I 'm here is I 've been friends with Jake ever since we met over a beer or three in Germany during my Jam days , I admire him as a lyricist and I think the group has a valid future . ’ |
| 2 | In other respects , the Declaration settled a number of issues which had been points of contention between the Crown and Parliament , and settled them in Parliament 's favour . |
| 3 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 4 | Some of the most intractable problems in Scottish geology relate to the structural and metamorphic history of the Moine Series rocks of the North West and Grampian Highlands , the ages of which have been matters of controversy and speculation since the early nineteenth century because of their structural complexity , and the lack of incontrovertible and unequivocal evidence of their absolute age , and it is noteworthy that research in these areas has been led by Geological Survey scientists , sometimes with university collaboration , and sometimes without . |
| 5 | The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis ( Cedar , £5.99 ) sets out a self-help programme for women who 've been victims of incest . |
| 6 | She 's one of 27 pensioners living in the Aylesbury area who 've been victims of distraction burglaries in the past year . |
| 7 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 8 | On 6 November I saw a delegation of small business men who had been customers of BCCI , and yesterday I saw representatives of the BCCI depositors protection association . |
| 9 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 10 | If the preceding analysis is correct , then Gundovald 's support can be seen to depend on three different groups : there were members of Childebert 's court , seemingly anxious to keep their options open until the king was recognized as being of an age to rule ; there were men who had been followers of Guntram , but whose positions had been compromised ; and finally there were military leaders who had been in the service of Chilperic , but who had been too far from court at the time of his murder to ensure their survival under Chlothar II , whose own succession could scarcely be taken for granted . |
| 11 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 12 | Children who have been victims of abuse should not be further abused by the system . ’ |
| 13 | Victim or victimisation studies are designed to investigate the number of individuals who have been victims of crime . |
| 14 | Not so , says Helen Peggs , spokeswoman for Victim Support , which aims to support those people who have been victims of crime . |
| 15 | There is even a condition known as ‘ intensive care psychosis ’ which is said to affect about twenty per cent of those who have been patients in hospital intensive care units . |
| 16 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 17 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 18 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 19 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 20 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 21 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 22 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 23 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 24 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 25 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 26 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 27 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 28 | There 've been robberies at Tibberton near Droitwich , Worcester and Wyre Piddle near Pershore . |
| 29 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 30 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |