Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [pers pn] have be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in .
2 It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know .
3 This is the first time we 've been in a University .
4 It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive .
5 It 's the first time they 've been to Britain , even though some have been teaching English for twenty years ; they 're staying at the Oxford House School of English , and will also visit the Oxford University Press as the trip has been made possible by an East German publishing house .
6 This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous .
7 This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day .
8 It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge .
9 It 's the first time I 've been to a game of footie in a Porsche , and it will probably be the last , but it was fun , and added to the enjoyment of another thoroughly enjoyable day out Leeds watching .
10 ‘ As this is the first time I 've been to Ca ’ del Leone , the answer must be no . ’
11 I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’
12 Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ .
13 ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation .
14 It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy .
15 In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy .
16 It was the first time she had been into the city since that awful night of the cockfight back in February .
17 I was to write about it for Cosmopolitan , she for Trud ; it was the first time she had been outside the Soviet bloc .
18 As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life .
19 Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife .
20 But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since
21 For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer .
22 They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain
23 Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend .
24 For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage .
25 The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together .
26 That 's the last time we 've been to Suffolk .
27 The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled .
28 Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . )
29 He remembered the last time he had been in this situation .
30 But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott .
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