Example sentences of "and be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Seen slides and been to lectures on it . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 6 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 7 | I have flown round the world once and been on Concorde . |
| 8 | Sonia was one of the first of the black running stars and had run at all the major meetings and been on television . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 19 | In the case of import orders over $30,000 , no hard currency can be released until after goods have cleared customs and been in the country for three months . |
| 20 | As one who has shared a platform with Chris Baines and been in audiences when his oratory and enthusiasm for the natural world have captivated those present , I am reluctantly prompted to write to correct his distorted and unfair portrayal of the fee-basis and motivation of landscape architects ( The Baines Report , November ) . |
| 21 | It appeared that my cousin John Reed , who had spent and wasted all his money and some of his mother 's , and been in debt or in prison most of his life , had killed himself a week before . |
| 22 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 23 | A group of sisters whose objectives and aims and struggles I support quite fully and been in fact fighting for those aims . |
| 24 | Was was any attempt made by the the experienced men the one who the ones who understood the rock and been in the presumably been in the industry |
| 25 | The cellar I have at least seen , and been in occasionally ; I know all the rooms on the ground floor and the second ; the loft is my domain entirely and home of the Wasp Factory , no less ; but that one room on the first floor I do n't know , I have never even seen inside . |
| 26 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 27 | I could have won my place back and been in the Leicester side tomorrow , but I 've got no regrets about coming to Newcastle . |
| 28 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 29 | Having worked and been around the Brighton first schools for many years , I would very much hope that the transition is not traumatic . |
| 30 | Having worked and been around the Brighton first schools for many years , I would very much hope that the transition is not traumatic . |