Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] touch [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canon Radford added : ‘ The Archbishop of Canterbury has been informed and has been in touch with Bishop Peter . |
| 2 | Mr Clancy has been in touch with the Metropolitan Police to say he has Bobby . |
| 3 | The American Ambassador has been in touch with him . ’ |
| 4 | I believe that transport policy researcher , Stuart Cole , whom we have asked to chair the study , has been in touch with you to ask if you would be prepared to make a contribution by joining the steering group . |
| 5 | It would be helpful to David Wilson to know if either of the organisations named above or any other similar organisation has been in touch with you or any of your staff and also to indicate to him the nature of this contact and details of what was being offered . |
| 6 | In addition , Lady Anson , the chairman of the Association of District Councils , has been in touch with my noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces . |
| 7 | As for the safety of the Zairean , I was glad to see that , in his judgment , Mr. Justice Brown said : ’ However , it is at least now clear that no irreversible damage has resulted from his removal on 1st/2nd May ’ — as he has been in touch with his solicitors both from Zaire and Nigeria since then . |
| 8 | The Parkinson 's Disease Society has been in touch with me , and I am grateful to its chief executive , Mrs. Mary Baker , both for information and for helping me understand the problems . |
| 9 | However , my personal assistant has been in touch with Carole and Ben Meadows . |
| 10 | Scotland Yard has been in touch with the Argentine inquiry . |
| 11 | Detective Superintendent Michael Walsh said yesterday : ‘ The Jockey Club has been in touch with the force , and further discussions will be taking place . |
| 12 | ‘ This is the Government that has been in touch with the SNP in order to save themselves , but has not been in touch with the Dutch government in order to save Albion , ’ he said . |
| 13 | He has been in touch with Greenalls who , in turn , have been pressing the contractor to compensate him . |
| 14 | ‘ The British Legion has been in touch with Warrington Borough Council about putting a plaque on the cenotaph but nothing has happened yet . ’ |
| 15 | VICTOR Harrison has been in touch from Teesdale from where it is always welcome to hear . |
| 16 | She 'd been in touch with Tim Dunton , of course . |
| 17 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 18 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 19 | Many of the floral designs for this china , whether taken from prints or fresh exotic blooms , were obtained from the nearby Physic Garden and Philip Miller must have been in touch with the factory . |
| 20 | Reluctantly , Charlotte agreed , even though she was sure he would already have been in touch with them in such an event . |
| 21 | I would have thought they 'd have been in touch about extending the guarantee through you . |
| 22 | Apologies for not having been in touch for so long . |
| 23 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |
| 24 | Although Joffre , who seems at this time not to have been in touch with military reality , even now expected his left wing to advance and halt the invasion . |
| 25 | Goleniewski had been in touch with the CIA since 1958 during which time he had passed on to them a considerable amount of information that had led to the arrest of several important spies . |
| 26 | It has been shown that most suicide attempters are aware of the existence of agencies where they could obtain help , such as the general practitioner , social workers , or the Samaritans ( Kreitman and Chowdhury 1973b ) ; in fact , a significant proportion of attempters had been in touch with one or more of these agencies in the weeks preceding the attempt ( Bancroft et al. 1977 ) . |
| 27 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 28 | Asked if he had been in touch with his 43-year-old wife , who is absent from their country home in Chippenham , Wilts , the brigadier said : ‘ Of course I have . ’ |
| 29 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 30 | They said that an AI group from Austria had been in touch with them with help and support , and that people from all over the world were pressing for his release . |