Example sentences of "[pron] been [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Had she been to these places with Chris ? |
2 | Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson . |
3 | It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’ |
4 | That 's him been in this post for twelve years ? |
5 | That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party . |