Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems only appropriate to begin this chapter by establishing the limits of the subject , because not everyone has been in agreement as to where influence ends and control begins . |
| 2 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 3 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 4 | the only thing I got was of Stella |
| 5 | I hate being in debt to anyone , but with you it 's different , Jane . |
| 6 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 7 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 8 | and all I want is to type down there , cos that 's all I do |
| 9 | ‘ All I want is for Scotland to keep winning . |
| 10 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 11 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 12 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 13 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 14 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 15 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 16 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 17 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 19 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 20 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 21 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 22 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 23 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 24 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 25 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 26 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 27 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 28 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 29 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 30 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |