Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] and [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 2 | Lesley 's elder brother Dave , 34 , said last night : ‘ She had always wanted to be in uniform and had been in the Wrens . |
| 3 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 4 | My children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 5 | Yes my children do go to school and have been for some months now . |
| 6 | He had an accident at work and has been off work for two weeks . |
| 7 | Election expenses are limited by statute and have been since 1883 . |
| 8 | Septimus , who was a philosopher by nature and had been in a French prison before , made the most of his breakfast in a way peculiarly his own . |
| 9 | Romero is a provincial film-maker by choice and has been since the 1960s , long before this was common — if indeed it is even now , despite the growth of independent film-making and its important contribution to the artistically enfeebled Hollywood mainstream . |