Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 2 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 3 | According to a friend Patricia had been to two fortune tellers recently . |
| 4 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 5 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 6 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 7 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 8 | All the dancing that she had ever done had been at three school dances , and in sessions for instruction in the art of the polka , the mazurka , and the tarantella , and she did not think they would be much help to her now . |
| 9 | From where she stood , working access to the most inner room had been via remote control arms and full-sized plastic window-suits set in the wall with their own flexi-corridors that stretched out behind the deeper the technician moved into the room . |
| 10 | The French government on Aug. 19 ordered its naval commanders to apply sanctions " with firmness " ; France , however , had been among those Security Council members reportedly expressing concern on Aug. 13 over the prospect of individual members , rather than the Security Council , deciding to move to enforce a blockade . |
| 11 | Ballistics experts proved the pellets had been from two air rifles found in Dines ' car . |
| 12 | The Morley/Penman project had a negative thrust — ‘ rockist ’ duly became a term of abuse as casually applied by pop fans as ‘ selling out ’ had been by 1960s rock fans — but its tone was relentlessly optimistic and Morley was duly rewarded for his faith in market forces ( and in Dollar in particular ) by being invited into Trevor Horn 's record label plans . |
| 13 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 14 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |
| 15 | An inquiry found that the vintage plane had been in good working order . |
| 16 | Well yes you , you , you 've got two , one is you 've got erm the rural poor who will provide a labour force in the countryside for rich peasants and you 've , because you have got a labour market and because there are no limits on mobility , then presumably there will be some poor peasants who will decide no I 'll get out , I 'll industry 's going to get going , I will be able to earn more money in a town , or sons would go off and , and so , so there should be , you should provide a , have a supply of labour , whereas if you 've got everybody , if everybody had been in middle peasant status erm there would have been no incentive to do that because everybody would have been self sufficient within the countryside . |